And how should they, these old stations, drown? Gas at 1,500 euros per thousand “cubes”? The coal mines have already been dismantled and the French atom – once big, strong and independent – has long needed repair and reconstruction. Well, they planned to close it, what was there to invest. Today it is too late to “drink Borjomi” – the stations are operating at half capacity.
Switzerland, so wealthy and sovereign, the flagship of peace and confidence in the future, was caught between two fires: electricity used to be bought in France, which is now scarce, and in Germany, where today factories have to close for winter through the winter and not freeze. Checkmate, flip the switch down, line up for undergrowth.
Surprising, of course, but an electric car needs power. A lot of. Tesla Model S consumes 30 kWh per 100 km. And if there are several thousand of them, then what did the European rulers dream of? There will not be enough for homes and hospitals, including schools and kindergartens. No, guys, get your old, smoky and smoky “Redvans” out of the storage areas and fill them with environmentally harmful diesel fuel. The exhaust pipe is a passage to the road. Expensive, harmful, but who said that life in the “reservation” would be easy?
And electric vehicles can exist only in two European countries: in Norway, which has long provided a turbine for every mountain river, and in Russia, whose ancestors built numerous hydroelectric power plants under the most difficult conditions and an advanced “peaceful atom” of a full cycle – from mining to electricity generation. For everyone else, the “train” is simply not affordable. What they fought for, as they say.