Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33869270-20180703224215/@comment-31295789-20180718052833

Can anyone honestly say if electric cars, in general, are a valid, long term replacement for fossil fuel driven vehicles? I appreciate that they're much more efficient and reduce pollution in cities, but until electricity generation becomes fully renewable, they just move the pollution to the power stations.

And the batteries. These are made from limited resources, witch are hugely polluting to extract and process and then have they have a limited lifetime!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some climate change denier lunatic, I'm an engineer with a science background, I know its real, I've seen the data. I just don't see electric, battery driven cars as a suitable long-term alternative. Maybe electric driven from an overhead supply, like a train, but not batteries.

The rail company I work for is talking about retrofitting older diesel driven locomotives with hydrogen powered engines. Now there's some tech I can get behind.