Re: Charging (Why not biofuels?)
All your megatonnes of lithium does is move the inefficiency. Currently the plan is to try to capture diffuse energy from wind or sun and then rectify that to get to the user. Problem is that you get a large winter blocking anticyclone sitting over the country and at night you have no power. Doesn't matter the gas powered CCGT can fire up and replace the renewables. Indeed the CCGT's are continually running at 'inefficient tickover' just in case - so all that fuel being burned to justify the virtue signaling windfarms/solar farms
So the fossil fuel is still burned but now the electricity generated gets to you through a long series of inefficient transmission lines then to your battery and eventually to the motors on each wheel. The losses in that system are as large if not larger as the losses from fossil fuel to ICE to wheels.
AND, currently, renewables do not generate sufficient stable baseload power to charge all the EVs envisaged by politicians. It is probable that the gas fired generation will be required to supplement at all times. Hinckley point cannot generate sufficient on its own.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
