I don't think it is even a conspiracy.autogyro wrote:I am sure you do not want me to go into the real reasons why we have not had a world system of electric road vehicles for the last 100 years do you.
It has nothing to do with technology of course.
It is greed, pure and simple.
In order to support a fleet of electric vehicles, the power utilities would have to make significant upgrades to their infrastructure to handle the charging load. They have little incentive to do this, as it costs a lot of money to do and would take a big bite out of their precious bottom line.
The only time I've seen utilities upgrading their infrastructure at all is it is badly damaged by accidents or severe weather. During the recovery process they will sometimes install higher rated equipment than what was originally there, providing reserve capacity for later use. And even that is rare, with all the cost cutting going on they are more likely to downgrade lines that aren't being pushed to their limits.
There is one other thing to consider too. When you factor in the efficiency losses of distribution and conversion, especially the losses at the battery charger, you'll realize that an electric vehicle is only a fraction of efficiency that an internal combustion vehicle is able to do. Consider the entire system- from prime mover all the way to the road wheels before you label electric as more efficient than combustion. Before electric cars really do go bigtime, we need some seriously revolutionary improvements in batteries and chargers- or some radical new method of storing bulk electricity for long periods of time.
, F1 technical just got F1 political.
, to produce hydrogen for the race, this would force the teams to make the production faster and more efficient (if you limited electricity) for allowance of more fuel consumption for more power or just lasting longer in the race, we have seen F1 have many real world applications (aero, engines, materials) this could be another 
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