First I need to take a moment of silence to pay tribute to
the French and their police and army.
Today we are all French.
Inside EVs dot com reported the yearly sales of plug in
cars. 119,710 such cars were sold in the
USA in 2014. Many new brands came to
market with 22 vehicles to choose from.
In 2013 there were 16 vehicles to choose from and 97,507 vehicles were
sold.
It looks like a “growth” market on the surface but when one
looks at the three market leaders (Leaf, Volt and Tesla) the growth was anemic
at only 4.5% year on year growth (68,339 vehicles versus 65,387) and two of the
three (Tesla and Volt) each selling fewer vehicles in 2014.
When the battery size is added to the equation for the three
market leaders the growth in kilowatt hours of battery packs was only 3.3% year
on year. Mr. Obama promised a million
plug in vehicles on the road by the end of the year and we all know that was
wishful thinking.
OK we all know that Dr. Chu was a run a way Chu Chu and
wasted billions of dollars so let’s get back to the EVs and the market leader
The Nissan Leaf. Nissan received $1.4
billion in DOE loan guarantees on the promise they would produce 150,000 Leaves
per year. The Leaf has been on market
for four years and 1 month. In that
entire time they sold 72,303 or about half of what they promised for one
year. This is a fulfillment of one
eighth of a promise! Kind of like getting one year of work out of Mr. Obama in two terms.
At least the leaf got 72,303 cars on the road. AC Transit got 12 fuel cell busses on the
road powered by hydrogen. The cost to
taxpayers and ratepayers for the program so far is $87.6 million. Now the zinger the busses have only traveled
526,000 miles (AC Transit Report 14-013 of March 2014). I wrote the following to Denise Standridge
the General Counsel of AC Transit:
“The real cost
per mile is $87.6 million divided by 526,000 miles which equals $166.54 per mile. The
CO2 saved per mile is probably no more than 5 pounds even
if all the hydrogen is made from renewable resources and the diesel busses
attain 5.5 MPG. Therefore, the cost of the program per short ton of CO2
saved is at a minimum $66,616. Wow a short ton of CO2 offsets in
Europe can be purchased for $7.42 per short ton (Euro 6.86 per metric
ton). This program has cost taxpayers and ratepayers 8,976 times the real
value of the CO2 saved.
This project has to be the biggest boondoggle and greenwashing
in the world and of course the Governor of CA gave the project his highest
environmental award
I cannot even think of a Hollywood screenwriter who could dream
up this nonsense!!”
Folks, the
$87.6 million could have been used more wisely.
The $1.4 billion loan to Nissan could have been used more wisely. I am convinced that the US needs an
Engineering General just like an Attorney General and a Surgeon General to
bring Real Energy Policy to the country.
Else, we will continue to have Presidents making outrageous statements
about electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles.
Talking of
vehicles I filled up with midgrade in Marin County California for $2.43 a
gallon. It took me 4 minutes and I did
not have to have Elon Super Charge me, I already was super charged by Governor
Moonbeam who gave AC Transit an environmental award of the highest level for
their BLOOMDOGGLE. If Moonbeam had his
way AC Transit would switch to DC Transit and go all electric. Welcome to California where solar cells will generate
power at night using Moonbeams. I will
be writing quite a bit on AC Transit in future blogs.
Note my previous blogs on AC Transit showedvthe Bloom Energy connection. I will have added information soon on the Bloom Contract AC Transit executed.
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