In media and in the public, the public opinion forming, e-mobility gets sold as an ecology-saver, no doubt on that, Jim. On the fincial costs for buying such cars, and the enonmrous vlaue loss they go throzugh in short time due to the degrading and technically outdating b attery, I do not even talk - that is an added negativ ebonus.
And then there is the enormous costs for building an infrastrructure for supployng hcraging options. An infrastruxcture that costs money, and that in the end coist the tax payer - true if you just count taxes directly, true if indirectly calculating the growing debts of the state providing it and thus later devaluing money and so again plundering the people.
And the ecologic costs go far beyond this financial aspect. While lithium ion batteries alreeady are a dated technology, they still are the workhorse of batter economy. Cobalt. Lithium - winning these are dirty businesses, and inhumane works in many cases, a raping of th enevironment. The availability is limited , and once the demand becomes bigger than the supply, the prices for batteries will skyrocket into the air. So the spread between porice for new batteries and selling old, used batteries/cars, becomes even bigger - at cost of the customers.
It all makes so very much less sense than the general public discussioin usually reflects.
Then there is the question where power is coming from. The Ger,man "Energiewende" has massively destabilised supply securit yin not just Germany, but hrpoughout the whole Eurppean powergrid. On many days Germany mjst buy "dirty2 power from other coutnries, becasue if the weather does not play ball, Germany is no longer capabvle to meet its elelctric deamnd all by itself -a dn this with still some nu,mcear plants and coal block online, which in case of the first will eb switche doff, and in case of the altter by will of the left-green retards should be switched off better yesterday than today, NO MATTER WHAT.
Having talked with my parents and my childhood days that I do not remember, electricty supply stability has never been so bad in my life than it is now, a clear, massive detoriation over the past ten years. Since a frew years I witness something that is totally new to me: micro blackouts, and instabilities in the power grid. In all our street. At the same time the pice and market mechansims that suually reuglate the market, has been toppled and turned top down. We have the highest energy prices in the Western world already here in Germany, and it is set to become worse.
Deindustrialization. While the planetary population level is still pushed upwards.
Oh my. But I stra yoff, sorry. Its all just so hilarious.