A few weeks ago I reviewed the Chevrolet Bolt EV which is the first fully electric car that’s being sold in Kuwait and yesterday, a friend sent me the pictures above. It seems that Alghanim will be setting up electric charging stations around Kuwait and the one above is located in the Hamra Tower parking lot. This should help make the Bolt a more desirable and practical vehicle.
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increasing electric vehicles would save the government a lot of money. unfortunately, it’s not considered a priority.
electric vehicles should be considered a public benefit, and it’s sad that the government is leaving it almost entirely to private companies like alghanim to get them going, rather than providing support.
How would they save the government money?
They would save on the subsidized petrol budget as power stations are much more efficient when it comes to producing energy.
Around 700,000 barrels per day right now for power consumption. I get that they use a more efficient process but still not sure how it’ll affect when the consumption gets heavy.
The consumption will increase on the more efficient option and decrease on the less efficient option…. so overall better
The government also heavily subsizides electricity
because they have to use less oil to make gas and more oil saved by electric cars means more money
Electricity is way more ubsidized than petrol. It would cost the country more to run electric vehicles.
Can’t wait to see pickup douchebags parking in that spot.
I mean… all of our electricity comes from oil anyway? Like I get the idea here but an electric vehicle when your power comes from oil isn’t as “clean” as you think
The Camry Hybrid base model is rated at 51 mpg in the city and 53 mpg on the highway, compared to 28 & 39 for the non-hybrid base model.)
The hybrid version is almost twice as efficient as the full-combustion version, despite the fact that a combustion engine is far more inefficient than a power-plant.
So yes, electricity from a power-plant is far far cleaner than electricity from your car’s engine. also, power-plants don’t shove pollution right in our faces because they are located outside cities.
Generating electricity and using that to charge and power EVs is a much more efficient process than ICE. Plus you have the option of using solar (or any other green power source) to produce electricity.
Everyone around the world.. don’t fall in the trap about going to electric cars because of environment…
The “real” cause is that demand for oil is in continuous increase, and supply of cheap oil is decreasing..
Therefore to avoid high oil prices, they are selling the idea of electric cars in order to decrease the demand for oil.
Industrial countries around the world can’t withstand higher oil prices >> expensive petrochemicals >> expensive products
Well you do have some valid points (I think)…
Electric cars are still better for the environment than conventional gasoline cars.
you are wrong about economics: there is no “cheap oil”, prices are set by supply and demand.
you are wrong about environment: pollution causes millions of preventable deaths all over the world each year.
and by efficiency alone, electric cars beat combustion engined cars. you can tell that because every hybrid car consumes less petrol/diesel than its combustion-only counter-part (The Camry Hybrid base model is rated at 51 mpg in the city and 53 mpg on the highway, compared to 28 & 39 for the non-hybrid base model.)
The hybrid version is almost twice as efficient as the full-combustion version, despite the fact that a combustion engine is far more inefficient than a power-plant.
Point #1 : Economics
Yes there is “cheap oil”.. Which is the oil easily extracted, thus having lower costs and higher margin profits per barrel..
There are large amounts of oil around the world, but we are running out of cheap oil.. When supply of cheap oil nearly finishes we don’t have other choice other than extracting other oil with higher costs, thus higher prices so producers can have profit.
Point#2: Environment
“Yes” the world is suffering from pollution. We definitely need measures to reduce pollution. The world’s major sources of pollution are Transportation (automobiles, airplanes ect) & all kinds of factories and power plants.
Therefore we need to tackle pollution and have environment friendly measures in both sides (Transportation & Factories) so we can have a solution for pollution. If we move to electric transportation and environment friendly solutions, and we let factories polluting in China and other countries without any measures, we are not doing anything other than providing these industries with cheap oil…
Point #3: Efficiency
You are correct about efficiency of electric and hybrid cars and I agree with you,
But we can only consider electric cars “efficient” only if the source of electricity is also clean.
Also are you aware that extracting Lithium for electric cars batteries effect the environment ? And by the way, good luck in supplying enough lithium for the increased demand.
Conclusion:
I am not against electric cars.. We need to tackle all sources of pollution.. Because our aim should be saving the environment rather than being the weak side, and just following agendas to provide cheap oil for factories without solving the pollution disasters.
Best Regards
1. i understand some oil is cheaper to extract, but that does not set the price. you could extract oil for 200 USD per barrel or 10 USD per barrel, the price will remain at the market price, kept there by market forces.
2. chinese factories’ pollution kills a lot more chinese than it does kuwaitis, because it’s close to chinese people and far from kuwaitis. the same principle applies to power stations: they don’t output pollution next to schools, houses and hospitals (but ICE cars do).
3. efficiency does not depend on the source of the electricity, that’s why i used the example of the camry hybrid vs camry non-hybrid. the same source of energy (petrol) is used but the electric motor provides efficiency not possible with a combustion engine.
i’m sure lithium extraction is very bad for the environment, but for some reason i don’t care as much about people outside kuwait, whose environment is getting polluted.
Just put 100k km on my ioniq electric. Spent 80 dollars on maintenance. No way I’m going back to gas cars.
Don’t get caught up in the politics of it all. Buy electric to safe money not the environment
Save the amazon rainforest drive the bolt…