The world or rather the people in it has lost all sense of direction. Electric vehicles are fine, however, the motive power source is in the main derived from fossil fuels, The raw materials are environmental dangers when their life as a battery is exhausted plus the mining of aforementioned materials is certainly environmentally damaging.

Hydrogen fuel cells are indeed a far better solution Aas a motive power source, see below...

Conventional wisdom holds that battery-powered cars are the future of motoring. But Hyundai, a big South Korean vehicle-maker, is not so sure. Over the past few months it has been running a worldwide public-relations campaign extolling the virtues of an alternative source of electrical power—fuel cells. Instead of storing and then releasing electricity gathered from the mains in the way that a battery does, a fuel cell generates current from a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen comes from the air. The hydrogen, suitably compressed, is stored in a tank on board the vehicle, and is replenished at a filling station, like petrol. Unlike a battery, a fuel cell does create exhaust. But that exhaust is simply the reaction product of hydrogen and oxygen, namely water.

www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/07/04/after-many-false-starts-hydrogen-power-might-now-bear-fruit

Bloody hell chaps, we never had this much work when we used fossil fuels...



Here's what it was like when wind power was utilised... Not always environmentally friendly either...   

Yet another innovation concerning non-fossil fuel power units and it covers a large range of transportation ...

GAC China says it's building a "world first" ammonia engine for cars

GAC has presented what it calls the world's first ammonia engine for passenger cars – an alternative clean(er) motoring technology

Ammonia has been proposed as a clean fuel for ships, airliners, trucks and trains, but China's GAC believes it could also have a future in passenger cars. It's built a combustion engine to test the theory, capable of reducing emissions by around 90%.

For decades the oil & gas sector has been investing in the right scientists to deny or just obfuscate the issue of climate change, air pollution, ground water pollution and financed supported 'reasonable minded' politicians. Even now there's still the '... but, but, but' gang. All of that nonsense just leads to inaction and disaster. Don't tell deSantis that his Free State of Florida with only the right-minded people will soon drown.

For now EV is a good choice to have government support and other alternatives should be investigated in parallel but less promotion. The money for all that? Oil & Gas and taxation of a the real rich.

BTW the 'funny' memes on pronouns seems just another example of distracting from real issues. Elon Musk on Twitter promted having children and shows what he gives his nine kids, give them a happy life. Well, the kids born because the mother left without husband/boyfriend was forbidden to get an abortion, well those kids might not have a happy life.

I blame rubl, you know how these European types are.

Although a larger part of climate change may be a natural process playing over millions of years it would seem Humanity is very capable and managed to speed up things a bit.

Mind you, I might be slightly less worried about the changed situation in the year 3001 A.D. I'm more looking at the coming 40 to 50 years.