To the editor: George Skelton’s column struck me as overly biased in favor of gasoline-powered vehicles (“Californians bitter on Newsom’s push to ban gas-powered vehicles,” July 20). A number of of his claims don’t inform the entire story.
In California, charging an electrical car at dwelling sometimes prices about $10 per 100 miles, in contrast with roughly $18 per 100 miles to gasoline a gasoline automobile. These are substantial financial savings. Pure EVs additionally don’t require oil adjustments and customarily have fewer routine upkeep prices.
On high of that, charging know-how is enhancing at a exceptional tempo. New batteries and ultra-fast chargers are already lowering charging occasions, and the know-how continues to advance yearly.
Think about how a lot quicker we may enhance charging infrastructure and make EVs extra reasonably priced if our nationwide vitality coverage targeted as a lot on accelerating clear transportation because it has on supporting the fossil gasoline business.
We ought to be having an sincere dialogue in regards to the strengths and weaknesses of each applied sciences — not one which selectively highlights the drawbacks of EVs whereas overlooking their actual benefits.
Mark Winkler, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: I’m a lifelong nature lover and have been an environmentalist member of the Sierra Membership for 54 years, however I don’t agree with the concept electrical automobiles are the way in which to go. To some extent talked about within the column, there’s no means my mother and father and I might have been in a position to do our yearly summer season holidays with electrical automobiles. Almost day-after-day, we drove 100-200 miles on each fundamental streets/freeways and nation roads. A part of the enjoyable was actually seeing this nation, in addition to no matter points of interest awaited us at our day by day vacation spot.
What I do totally help is biofuels. I’m ready for the time when these varied types of environmental vitality are mass-marketed.
Gail Midday, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
