Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles
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Our energy policy has been pretty trash. Our nuclear reactors are getting pretty old and we have to import way to much power.
Instead of building new reactors a totally populist vote has banned basically anything to do with nuclear and we can't build new plants.
Switzerland isn't a great place for wind or solar, nuclear is the clear solution and all we had to do is build like 1-2 more plants in the last 30 years, but no.
In terms of saving energy, systematically removing cars from cities would be a good idea. Granted, most cars are not electric but its still a good idea in general. And it would safe energy in multiple ways.
We have done a great job at driving modal share into trains and public transport. But we have not been nearly as good at driving modal share into bicycles.
In general we just simply made a mistake on relaying on France and Germany to much, both have also messed up their energy policy in different ways.
That said, I'm not sure the conclusion of this article makes any sense. The problem isn't that the energy that powers these things comes from renewable sources. The problem is they don't have enough of it.
The blog just seems to be the ramblings of a covid/climate conspiracy type. I'd take it with a pinch of salt.
Plus these systems are designed knowing that solar and wind power are inconsistent. It isn't a shock to anyone that Central Europe gets less sunlight in the winter.
[1] - https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/renewables-share-of-el...
I do agree that putting casinos at level 4 is a bit odd but the idea seems to be that most of the shared indoor leisure facilities are left open as long as possible. That level also includes things like opera and theatre.
[0]: https://www.newsd.admin.ch/newsd/message/attachments/74051.p...
> and also limiting the use of electric cars, which should be driven only when absolutely necessary
I guess they mean: only charged when absolutely necessary. And charging from your own solar panels would still be fine...
2 - https://www.barcelona.cat/pla-superilla-barcelona/en
1 - https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/10/net-zero-zealots-on-oxfo...
I lived without a car for years in Switzerland and there's no issues going to other cities or even going on hikes or skiing on week-ends using public transport.
On the server side it's even less - CDN servers serve so many users that CPU load is very amortized (I've worked on CDNs before and have the necessary background). The biggest bottleneck for serving higher quality streams is usually available bandwidth on the customers internet connections and backbone links - but neither seems to be a bottleneck for their concerns.
Blue-ray players is the same story. These now used optimized SoCs to decode content, and are therefore energy efficient. Just looking up an example test of a player, a Sony UBP-X700 seems to require 6W. That's about 10k times less than an EV - which means you can watch 7 full days of Blu Rays instead of driving a car 1 minute based on the player power consumption alone. The added TV will make it more like 1 day, but it still shows they are looking at the wrong things.
It’s annoying that they’re not more common - even the companies that have them like Toyota don’t have them across the line.
Having an internal combustion engine adds a ridiculous amount to the manufacturing cost.
It's why Chevy quit manufacturing the Volt in spite of the fact that everybody I know who has one adores them. The Bolt is sooooo much cheaper to produce that's it's ridiculous.
The number of components on any ICE engine with a power level in the multi-10K watt range FAR exceeds the number of components on an all-electric drive train.
This is the fundamental problem: What's the point of producing a hybrid car that is more expensive to produce than both a standard ICE car and an all-eletric car?
It would be better for governments to subsidize the installation of chargers. This has the advantage that we could move to the all-electric cars (which are significantly cheaper to produce) and start removing gas stations (which are an environmental disaster because the tanks eventually leak).
You're adding a charger.
There's no reason that a plugin version of the Sienna should cost significantly more - https://www.toyota.com/sienna/features/mpg_other_price/5402/... but these are all non-plugin.
Bullshit. Importing on-mass energy from other nations was the "magic ingredient". That can be fixed in multiple ways. All of which are green.
So with PHEVs, 10 times more drivers can cut their fuel usage by 90% instead of 1/10th the drivers cutting their fuel usage by 100%. Seems like a better plan to me.
Eventually battery production will increase and people will be ready to get an EV because they already understand them from driving their PHEV in EV mode.
Oh come on.