History of Electric Vehicles: ‘In 1914, Henry Ford announced a ‘Ford Electric’ that would sell for $900 & have a range of 100 miles (Mom: 255). The brainchild of Thomas Edison himself’
'When government tries to pick losers & winners, it typically picks losers. Why? Because in a free market, consumers pick winners to leave the losers for government.' -- 'Are EVs an infant industry?...Just perhaps some fundamental physics is at play that will postpone any era of electric transportation until a future century if and when the oil-and-gas-fired internal combustion engine is no longer competitive.'
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotOctober 23, 2012 5:37 AM
Recent Articles
- MIT’s Dr. Richard Lindzen: Climate ‘Crisis’ Is Equivalent of a Person’s 98.7 Degree Temp – Imagine your doctor wanting to put you on ‘life support’ if your temp is 98.7 F instead of 98.6
- ‘Fringe’ or Reasonable? Bastardi on the Firing Line – Media smears skeptics yet again
- Michael Mann on COVID: ‘I see a perfect storm of climate opportunity’ – Also exposed ‘deadliness of anti-science’ views
- Why is Bill Gates now the US’ biggest farmland owner? Theories abound
- More Green Blackouts Ahead As Biden’s Regulators Ignore Grid’s Vulnerability
- WATCH: Bjorn Lomborg Slaps Down Climate Alarmism – UN Paris pact will cost one to two trillion dollars a year’ & ‘have virtually no impact, even in 80 years time’
- Polar Bears ‘fat & healthy’: It’s not a myth: 2020 was another good year for polar bears – ‘Global population size is now almost 30,000 – up from about 26,000 in 2015’
- Atlantic’s ‘conveyor belt’ shows no sign of declining, new study shows
- Net Zero flop: Why Boris is scrapping the Green Homes Grant – ‘Flashy public relations masking poorly thought out policies’
- The farcical climate ‘fact-checkers’ who don’t check facts – ‘Misrepresentation & deception have become the tool-in-trade’
- Rare Earth Elements Aren’t That Rare, but They’re Vital to National Security – ‘85% of global rare earth oxide supply is produced in China’
- US Climate Czar turns the thumb-screws on Australia coal
- ‘Acceleration’ in Sea-Level Rise Found to Be False – An artifact of Switching Satellites – Tidal stations recorded ‘a rate which is little changed over the century’
- Toyota starts building ‘smart city’ with self-driving cars, robots and AI homes – Seeks ‘fully sustainable’ city thay will ‘minimize carbon footprint’
- The Political Activism And Influence of Bill Gates: Foundation pledged $310 million to the Global Commission on Adaption to take ‘climate action’
- UN Security Council rejects climate alarmism: Russia & India reject attempts to turn global warming into a global security issue
- China’s US coal imports jump 748% amid Australian trade dispute
- Andrew Montford: The good news on climate: ‘It is not the impending catastrophe that some might make it out to be’
- William Murray: Environmentalism, Trumpism, and the Working Class
- Biden Interior Nominee Fields Questions About ‘Radical’ Climate Agenda