Re: "GM is projecting an all-electric future..."
Even if we burnt the petrol in a power plant we'd still reduce emissions, because we'd need less of it to power the vehicles on the road.
And we could use relatively heavy/bulky equipment to capture the nastiest emissions and reduce the damage further. Additionally those emissions would be made somewhere that wasn't densely populated by people breathing it all in.
If we had an additional 40kWh storage available, maybe across half of the vehicle fleet, that would be a rather substantial battery to cope with the variation in generation from other sources as well.
Our energy prices have been artificially far too low for far too long, we are starting to catch on to the idea that pissing in the drinking water isn't good for us, but are moving the latrine downstream very very slowly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
