Guest Post by John Stossel
Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil.But that’s absurd.Here is the rest of my list of “inconvenient facts” about electric cars.”The future of the auto industry is electric,” says President Joe Biden. He assumes a vast improvement in batteries. Better batteries are crucial because both power plants and cars need to store lots of electric power.But here’s inconvenient fact 3: Batteries are lousy at storing large amounts of energy.”Batteries leak, and they don’t hold a lot,” says physicist Mark Mills.
But future batteries will be better, I point out.
“Engineers are really good at making things better,” Mills responds, “but they can’t make them better than the laws of physics permit.”
That’s inconvenient fact 4. Miracle batteries powerful enough to replace fossil fuels are a fantasy. Continue reading “Magic Cars”