Even on super-fast chargers, an electric car must spend at least 15 minutes, more realistically twice as long, which is incomparable to the two or three minutes it takes to fill a tank with gasoline, diesel or liquid petroleum gas
If you are an intensive mobile phone user, even if you have had it for more than three years, you know very well what it's like when your battery dies in the early afternoon. Then you race to find the nearest charger or outlet, especially if you're in the middle of unfinished business. Of course, it is possible to carry an extra battery with you, but that defeats the idea of a beautifully designed, thin and light phone.
Now imagine that we all have such devices, the batteries of which do not last longer than five or six hours, and already around two in the afternoon we are all looking at where we are going to "spend". It's just that there wouldn't be enough sockets for so many people, so everyone would get about fifteen minutes, just to make a percentage. It was far away.
Such a scenario, however, is quite likely for electric cars, if they are massed without first significantly improving the infrastructure that would have to accompany them. Even on super-fast chargers, an electric car must spend at least 15 minutes, more realistically twice as long, which is incomparable to the two or three minutes it takes to fill a tank with gasoline, diesel or liquid petroleum gas. And so it is at every gas station, while there are very few super fast chargers even in countries that have gone the furthest in terms of electrification of transport, such as Norway. So the battery charging time is usually measured in hours. Then imagine what it means to be third in line for electricity.
These stories have come to life in recent months as a result of the alarm in the European auto industry, which has not humanly recovered from covid, and now it is facing even darker days. A few years ago, the EU set 2035 as the exit year for the use of fossil fuels in traffic, and at least five years before that deadline, the European auto industry planned to stop the production of internal combustion engines, that is, a complete transition to electricity was planned. The deadline approached and now it is clear that nothing will come of it. Because there are no conditions for such a transition. Even in Serbia, where the number of electric cars is in the single digits, it is not possible to get a charger in a garage because the existing electrical installations cannot support it. There are few public chargers on the roads, they are not arranged so that electric cars can travel comfortably, there is no system that would direct the intending driver to the best charging option while on the road.
The second blow comes from China, which has advanced so far in terms of electrification and production of electric cars than Europe and the USA that it no longer needs European and American cars, neither gasoline nor electric. This intensified the crisis of the European auto industry, which no longer has enough markets for its capacities and is starting to close factories. And the auto industry makes up 7 percent of the GDP of the European Union. And if the auto industry is "on the back burner", it will take with it at least as many supporting businesses, and the decline will be dramatic, pandemic as it were, only in the long term.
What is much more dangerous for Europe is that it will cease to be a place where anything significant is created for the industry of the future, above all the digital one. For ten years, there has been no prestigious European mobile phone, computer, television. Europe is losing the race to China in telecommunications equipment, and now cars are under attack, so to speak, the last ditch. The continent where Spektrum and Olivetti computers, Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson telephones, Philips and Grundig televisions were born, must not even think about Renault, Fiat, Volkswagen, Mercedes and others sharing that fate. If it is still not clear to anyone why that line will be desperately defended, at any cost.
Justice must never again depend on who is in power, because it applies to both "ours" and "theirs". The winners fought for it. Other affairs can wait, even if it is foreign policy - Europe is here, it will not run away
All this is the logical cause of Vučić's hysterical reaction to the mention of regulating the local media space. A mild attack on Prva and Informer televisions led to protests by "loyalists"
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The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
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