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The second piece is that those 5 cars will be replaced much sooner than the 100 individual cars.

Electrical core for cars yes but pure electric cars for real world scenarios does not fit.

Unfortunately, this means that the cost of all their other cars must also go up.

If all cars end up being full time service vehicles (through self driving?), one car would hopefully be able to service 20 people and replace all those cars.

The mandate backfired because car manufacturers were now trying persuade the state that no one wanted electric cars, eventually causing all electric cars to forcibly be taken off the roads.

That would be a 6 month time period, where the number of cars went from 58,295 to 64,500.

Once battery cost is solved, and it looks like it's going to be, electric cars will start to take over.

He said he loses $14,000 on every 500e he sells and only produces the cars because state rules re­quire it.

In the not very distant future cars will drive themselves to a charging center and parking needs will be greatly reduced.

Keep in mind some electricity that ends up in cars would/should come from renewable sources...

If they move to 85KWH cars, depleted and charged once a week, now we have an additional 85KWH x 18 million cars of electric power being used once a week.

Definitely don't need to be putting Niagara Falls worth of it into cars.

A total change of 6,205 new cars over 6 months amounts to roughly 1,000 new for-hire vehicles a month - about one half of the rate that de Blasio had said in his OpEd." This argument assumes (with no justification) that the cars have been added at a constant rate.

But generally, no matter what sane thing you do to these numbers, halve them, double them (maybe cheaper cars use crappier batteries/engines, maybe they mean light trucks too, etc), it's still "a lot of extra to plan for".

Marchionne, who took over the bailed-out Chrysler in 2009 to form Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, warned that if all he could sell were electric vehicles, he would be right back looking for another govern­ment rescue." In order to meet the fuel economy standards, car companies have been building cars that nobody actually buys to bring up their averages.

California also has the worst electrical infrastructure in the nation, and is not doing something like "requiring the EV people who will stress it" to pay a tax for improvements, or if they wanted to be punitive, a tax on gas cars to pay for it, or anything other than saying what a great idea this would be and pushing for it on the environmental side.

Cars charge overnight, which is a trough in electric demand.

Cars are a major source of air pollution.