Predictions:electric cars

[garbln]

I'm still waiting for the flying cars everyone was predicting 50 years ago.  We were all supposed to have them by now!

[PJPR01]

From PJPR01:It varies state to state. The electric Co. point of view is that they want to discourage expansion of solar use by customers because it less income from those customers but they still have to provide the infrastructure. In KS at least one company had requested to charge a higher rate to customers with solar, but was denied.
GliderJohn

Got it....thanks John.   

[twowheeladdict]

Basically everything man does has an unintended negative impact on something or someone.  Once in a while there is also an unintended positive impact. 

When the negative impact is realized it is sometimes irreversible, and sometimes accepted because the intended benefit outweighs the unintended negative.

In rare cases the negative impact is so severe that a corrective action is pursued with the hopes of creating a new intended benefit to correct the unintended impact with hopes of not creating a new unintended impact.

And so the cycle continues.

[tris]

I don't see how your post has anything to do with the viability of cleaner and renewable energy.  I don't understand the term "free energy" and how the laws of thermodynamics applies.

Because the energy to power all the electric cars has to come from somewhere. 

Fossil fuels and Nuclear generated electricity is frowned upon  and it strikes me that harvesting other forms of energy might problematic in the long term for reasons that we have no understanding of at the moment

You don't get owt for nowt

[LowRyter]

Porsche says new fuel means that ICE won't go away.

"In a recent interview with Evo magazine, Porsche VP of Motorsport and GT cars, Dr. Frank Walliser, says that synthetic fuels, also called eFuels, can reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of existing ICE cars by as much as 85 percent. And, he says, when you account for the wheel-to-well impact of manufacturing the EV, it's a wash.

"Synthetic fuels are made by extracting hydrogen via renewable energy, and capturing it liquid form with carbon dioxide. Compared to pump fuel, eFuels emit fewer particulates and nitrogen oxide as well. That's because, as Walliser explains, they are composed of eight to 10 ingredients while the dead plants we mine contain 30 to 40, many of which are simply burned and emitted as pollution in the process."

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/porsche-says-synthetic-fuel-internal-163000826.html