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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
With an EV, there is no warm up time, and no idling.
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Nor is there any need for warmup time or idling in any well-designed IC-engined car. Yes, people do it, I suppose from a mixture of habit and ignorance, but what do you want to bet that the same people who idle their gassers today would look for ways to warm up & idle their electric cars?
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Renewable energy has virtually no pollution, no spills, no explosions, no collapses, no radiation, no excess carbon dioxide, needs no military defense (the USA spends much more than ALL the other countries in the world COMBINED on our military!), and renewable energy is distributed almost everywhere on earth, so no one person, or one country can control it.
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Far from being entirely true. Many forms of renewable energy DO pollute, and have spills, collapses, and so on. Military defense would still be needed, first because oil is a very small factor in the current military situation, secondly because some proposals, like the one for providing Europe with electricity from solar generation in the Sahara, would be even more vulnerable to disruption than current oil supply chains.
In addition, virtually ALL of the benefits of pure electric cars also apply to PHEVs, while few of the drawbacks do.