Everything I've read about the new Aptera EV has excited me. It looks like the most thoroughly thought out and engineered Electric Vehicle since GM killed off the EV1. Yes, I know that Tesla is finally selling cars but at $100,000 It's just a toy for .com billionaires.
This video tour of Aptera's factory is really cool and only makes me more excited to see how their final product turns out.
But all this talk about EVs being the solution to $100+/barrel has me concerned. If 10 million people by EVs over the next 5 years, which is wildly optimistic, how would that impact the price of electricity? Does our current power grid even have the capacity to charge all those vehicles? We still derive a majority of our electricity from non-renewable resources such as coal and natural gas. So you're just swapping evils in some respects, natural gas/coal for oil. Electric vehicles only really make sense when you can charge them from a renewable source of electricity.
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