I am diametrically opposed to battery-operated EVs. That, however, does not mean I am opposed to the idea of EVs in total. For one, there are hydrogen vehicles, which are a class of EVs and also vehicles with an internal combustion engine running on petrol or hydrogen connected to an electric generator. I am opposed to battery-operated EVs because they basically transfer their emissions and noise to huge diesel (or petrol) or coal or gas generators somewhere you will not be allowed to see. Do you not wonder why OPEC nations are not opposed to and in fact contribute to EV technology? Just to be sure, I do not give a shit about what they think or do about battery tech.
Regardless, there are two very important advantages that EVs bring to the table.
The first one is clean air. The air in our towns and cities is very filthy from all the smoke generated by ICE vehicles, and our waterways are filthy from all the oil and condensed materials these vehicles generate. As a result, our lungs are filthy and even more importantly, our hearts are filthier still. Breathing in all this dirty air, we get home from work tired and grumpy and wake up even more tired and grumpier still. Our cities (Nairobi) smell like shit and cancer and our lives are drearier as a result.
The next and no less important advantage is silence. Internal combustion engines are noisy and their drivers (and touts in the case of PSVs) are rowdy, beating horns all over and shouting themselves hoarse. Our cities (Nairobi again) are cacophonous and our souls are chaotic. We are thus messy people,and when you combine that with dirty hearts, you get a degenerate society.
Cleaner, quieter cities have a combined calming and civilising1 effect on their inhabitants, many of whose behaviour will improve and who will thus demand better from their fellow citizens. Good morals therefore have a better chance of asserting themselves in such a society.
Seeing as I am opposed to battery-operated EVs, what is my proposal?
Hydrogen vehicles.
These offer the same advantages as battery vehicles plus more, including better range, much faster refilling and, importantly, the ability to easily generate hydrogen from seawater alongside other beneficial elements such as oxygen which can be used in our hospitals.
Unlike what that guy of Real Engineering said, hydrogen can be easily generated using solar or wind power plants when generation is at its peak and demand is low. There are also full sunshine and high wind areas along the tropics which can be very useful when thinking of places to install hydrogen generation plants.
The Japanese have the right idea. Let us see how much the people who want to make money at all costs will tolerate before they go to war.