Electric Cars? Not In YOUR Lifetime

This "electric car" thing is cute.

And impossible.

...Tesla founder and e-car visionary Elon Musk told a German business group “that electricity consumption will double if the world’s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need to expand nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind energy generating sources.”

The problem is, current technology doesn’t put us on a path for a doubling of energy output. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, total electricity produced in the U.S. will grow just 18% over the next 20 years. That’s not a “doubling.”

Furthermore, even that meager growth is based on the idea that “renewables” – from wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric sources, but also filthy options such as burning municipal waste – will double as a share of total electricity output, from the current 17% to roughly 34% by 2040.

But even then, some 52% of all our energy will still be produced by the “dirty trinity” of fossil fuels: natural gas, coal and oil. (Another 13% will come from nuclear power.) That’s not the “zero-emissions future” that GM touts....

If an all-electric-car future were near, Shell, ExxonMobil and BP would be building electric-charge units into their existing gas-station network as fast as possible.  They have the capital, after all, and they have the infrastructure--the land and buildings--all ready to go.

Ain't gonna happen soon.