All Electric Cars

So, I got to thinking because of a wonderful piece that I heard on 'Talk of The Nation: Science Friday." The particular episode that I'm interested in was a piece about the viability of plug-in cars, or all electric cars. You can review the article here. During the show there was not a lot of time spent analyzing the actual cost of every car in the US being powered by purely electricity. Since I'm a glutton for punishment, I'm going to try and quantify those variables and see what it would really cost the US in electricity to power the nations automobiles.

Obviously this experiment is going to have some caveats. For example, no time soon will there be freight going by purely electric means. This means: Trains, Trucks, Cranes, Construction Vehicles, Mining Vehicles, etc. So to limit the scope of understanding, I'm going to look at purely consumer, what I'm going to call, "Point-A to Point-B" cars that are meant for personal transport only. The last assumption is the destruction of SUV's because all-y'all that are still driving SUV's are not eco-friendly and this analysis will assume that we're all going to simpler cars. We can analyze in the future what it would take to power such a vehicle, but that is a paper for another time.

I guess that is good to get things started. I'm going to make this the first post for this series of posts and look at the research with further posts. I will combine all the posts into a final white paper at the end but I want to track the progress of research with cataloged posts.

TTFN

"powered by purely electricity" should be "powered purely by electricity"

nations needs an apostrophe - Comments from Brett 'The Defender' Ship