Nuclear is getting pushed only in word as a screen to cover the killing of coal and the slower death of shale and oil. It’s pathetic and sad how trusting Americans are. Fatal as well.

The only thing getting pushed is us into the literal cold. We deserve it for being so weak.

“My battery has lost 21% of its orig capacity (car is 5 years old)… my practical max range on a recent 1500 mile trip was 48% of advertised range. Drive for 75 minutes, charge for 40 minutes, repeat. It gets old fast.”

Yikes. Based on all of the battery degradation data out there, your Model S (I assume that’s what you have) is an outlier. Typical results for a Tesla Model S is 90% of range at 100,000 miles.

Interesting choice of aspirational entity – for someone who I used to know under her blog’s avatar Jane Galt and who self-identified as “right-leaning libertarian.”

On the other hand, the trajectory from Asymmetrical Info to Washington Post couldn’t end any other way

I will take solar seriously when politicians start talking about taxing Big Sun, instead of subsidizing it and mandating it. That’s when we will know solar is genuinely economic.

Of course, that will still leave us subject to China’s nearly-monopoly control over Big Sun, as the source of most of those solar panels and critical minerals dug out of Mother Earth by diesel-fueled equipment and processed in coal-fired equipment.

If we are not pushing nuclear fission power, then we are not serious.

Duh, I missed the irony in what I said. :) My favoritism for electric cars is totally different from the “greenies”. I see them as something that can be powered by solar and to decouple from the monopolies.

Look at gas prices. Totally dependent on who is in office. Get the wrong guy and they rocket up and screw you good.

Having a generator for longer travel tips I see as just a practical thing that covers you in the times when you need it. 99% of time electric alone will serve most people most of the time.

Isegoria says, “Diesel-electric trucks could work the same way.”

The difference in power needed, peak, accelerating, going up hills and just driving down the road from air friction and tire loses is immense. You need way less power to keep a truck going. That’s where electric could really make a difference. A Volkswagen TDI 4 cylinder diesel could run a 18 wheeler if you had flywheels or some sort of peak power batteries to handle the short acceleration times. It could also make driving trucks much more comfortable because you could have very powerful motors for the peak times. Right now they have mostly 500hp or so engines that weigh a massive amount. A Tesla Model S has 691 hp. You could add several engines and have a super-fast powerful truck that also got good fuel mileage on the road.

Someone needs to make a low cost trailer generator for electric cars that will charge them as they drive. The actual power needed on the highway is not that much. Something like a Volkswagen TDI Diesel would do nicely.

Maybe rent them.

I can see city centers building parking garages with chargers.

In a very short time, I believe, you will have self driving electric taxis and it will be no problem at all as they will charge themselves during slack time.