As a stop gap until infrastructure is updated to handle the electricity and generate it from renewable sources. Tesla is heavily in the battery and solar space as well, they just have focused on cars so much its practically been ignored. Solar in order to generate electricity, and battery to store it so you can use it when its night or cloudy. Once alternatives are truly available, you'll see you'll see a huge change, but as it is now, electrification itself enables you to later simply change your power plants rather than every vehicle on the road.
That's not going to happen when there is vested interest in propping up fossil fuels. I hope I'm wrong and you're right, I just don't think that's how the incoming administration sees things.
"The U.S. Solar Market Insight Q2 2024 report says 11 GW of new solar module manufacturing capacity came online in the United States during Q1 2024, the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in American history."
There you go. Economics will handle it. No stopping it.
> we could've solved climate change 50 years ago with nuclear
Next time you fire up that time machine, let me know. I've got a sports almanac packed and ready. On this timeline it never happened. Meanwhile, solar pv production capacity has doubled reliably every couple years for decades. And is only a few doublings away from providing all the power the world needs.
It doesn't matter about all of that if we're still burning fossil fuels, do you see what I mean ? You're saying it's cheaper, yet there is no storage solution possible for. that much renewables to keep everything running all the time, night time, winter etc.
I like renewbles, you seem to be getting aggressive as if I'm a climate denier, i'm the opposite, but I just don't think it's as easy as you think politically. To ignore politics is perilous.
We could've eradicated the use of fossil fuels 50 years ago with Nuclear, we didn't.
