Volvo Considering Introducing Electric Truck to the Korean Market
With the Moon administration wanting to phase out both nuclear and coal power what is going to power all these electric vehicles?:
Volvo Trucks, the world’s second-biggest heavy-duty truck maker after Daimler Trucks, may consider introducing a zero-emission vehicle in South Korea to meet the demand for environmentally friendly vehicles and to help further cement its leading status in one of its key markets, an executive of the Swedish company said Tuesday.
Yonhap
Volvo Trucks plans to begin producing fully electric trucks for commercial use in some European markets by the end of this year and to roll them out in North America next year.
“We have a number of markets that we are looking at (for the introduction of electric trucks). It is very clear that Korea is a very advanced market with the infrastructure being built up for electrical vehicles, and customers are adopting new technology,” Volvo Trucks International Vice President Anna Müller in charge of global sales operations said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency.
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Gulag power.
It is amazing how much toxic waste liberals are willing to inflict on the unwary. Even the Guardian admits it.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/aug/10/electric-cars-big-battery-waste-problem-lithium-recycling
Electric vehicles are the correct future.
Ask me to explain if you do not see it for yourself.
electric cars are folly, make people feel good since they don’t have to be a direct part of the pollution the vehicle creates. Battery production and disposal are huge problems, and unless you are plug into your local power plant, still burning fossil fuel.
Renewable energy made up 24% of the world’s electricity generation in 2014. This is growing as technology increases efficiency and more facilities come on-line.
While you can currently kinda say “electric car” means “coal powered car”, it is because the world is converting from internal combustion to electricity and from coal to renuable… and that is a process rather than the flip of a switch.
That process must be started… and it technically able to start now… as, like every similar technology, from electrification to telephones to passenger airlines, it is a decades-long process to become truly mainstream.
As for electric car efficiency…
“EVs convert about 59%–62% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels. Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17%–21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels.”
Electric cars are the future.
But, as Henry Ford said, “If I asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses’,”
CH, I doubt your figures on renewable energy. Where can we look that up?
The only cost-effective non-fossil fuel source is nuclear. Solar and wind power kill a lot of birds. Water power, like at dams, kills fish. Burning wood is worse than burning coal.
Would love to have a ROKdrop panel discussion if the right venue and beverages could be located. Of course, I’d recommend House of Pies in Houston, TX where we could go visit an oil company HQ and see what they are doing to make environmentally-friendly energy.
Of course, as they say, YMMV.
Global Electricity Production
hydro: 16.3%
non- hydro renewable: 8%
total: 24.3%
Nuclear power can be considered renewable. Using breeder reactors there is enough uranium for about 5 billion years of electricity generation… hopefully enough time to get our act together.
nuclear power: 10.4%
grand total: 34.7%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation
American Electricity Generation
renewable: 17%
nuclear: 20%
total: 37%
Thank you for that! I hadn’t really considered how many hydro stations there were. But they do kill fish.
The people wanting to wean us off fossil fuels won’t stop at that, you know. Read Jeremy Rifkin’s work. They want us living in small, technology-bereft, self-sustaining villages.