The EV thread

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I've been driving a Kia Sportage Hybrid for the past 5 weeks.

5.2L/100km (35% less than equivalent non-hybrid) and a full tank range of 860km.

I think I have the best of both worlds.......

I think you are correct, and for me the real push should have been hybrids a long time ago, whether they were battery hybrids or fuel cell type hybrids. We could have all been driving them by now and not wasting fossil fuel stuck in city traffic jams, and traffic emissions would be halved or lower already.

In relation to the wider subject matter, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find the real world risk of fire events is also the lowest in hybrids because a percentage of hybrids are on safer battery technologies.

Most of the hard line push for one technology or the other is about profit, not about emissions reduction.

I read the other day that if we'd combined SolarPV / Battery or Solar Thermal with exiting coal fired power station infrastructure we could have dramatically slashed emissions but it's not so profitable for big business and political will is weak. The trick it seems is that when you have a diversity of solutions you get the ability to make the best flexible use of every technology without compromise. The various apparatchiks for each technology want their preferred option to be the sole solution at any price.