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Bernardo de La Paz

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7. You don't want an energy transition to nuclear? I thought you did.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 03:55 PM
Jun 1

When that transition reaches some threshold point, electric vehicles will be "cleaner" than ICE or HEV. Where that transition point is exactly is hard to know, but is not the issue. Somewhere further down the road there will be enough clean energy to make BEV and PHEV clearly cleaner than ICE or HEV.

When there is enough clean energy, there is not going to be a sudden mass changeover to BEV/PHEV. There has to be the infrastructure for them. If people don't use increasingly more BEV/PHEV now, the infrastructure won't be there to get rid of ICE/HEV.

If the electric grid is 90% nuclear in the future you want (if not perhaps 100% nuclear), would you still want ICE/HEV? I think you would not want them, but maybe I'm wrong. You can't get from here to there without both an energy transition and a vehicle transition. Neither transition will be instant.

If you eliminate car culture, that means no taxis either.
If you eliminate cars and electric busses, that means only bicycles, trains, and planes continentally. That is not going to work.

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