January 8, 2022
PITY THE POOR PETROPHILES:
Electric cars aren't just vehicles. They're big batteries. (Neel Dhanesha, Jan 8, 2022, Vox)
So what will it take to convince more people to embrace EVs? One answer might be for everyone to rethink what EVs actually are. Most Americans, including Biden, talk about electric vehicles solely as modes of transport -- which is understandable, given they have motors and wheels and get us around. But they are so much more than cars: they're batteries, and batteries have uses far beyond transport. Done right, integrating EVs into American society could help prevent power blackouts, stabilize the US's crumbling electric grid, and make solar and wind energy more reliable sources of power for more people. The first step is to stop thinking about electric vehicles as cars that happen to be powered by batteries, and instead see them as batteries that happen to be inside cars.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2022 9:07 AM