Electric Vehicles: The White Elephant That Belongs in the Zoo!

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT throw away your driving or motorcycle gloves for driving an electric vehicle.

Electric vehicles are simply a quick fix to the current system. Yeah, okay, we’re all going to need to use less energy, which could possibly also include using less plastic trash and being more rational with our daily vehicle use. But electric vehicles are not the answer! Electric vehicle development is still in the lab and we need to find better ways to store and recharge electricity.

Most of the latest electric cars can do about 85 miles per hour. But, for a range of only about 90 miles and an eight-hour recharge. One lap at the Isle of Man TT and an electric bike goes flat! How could you see that? How could he even justify putting on a pair of leather motorcycle gloves to do that? The sight of a racing bike leaning on a sweeper without the characteristic sound of accelerating internal combustion power is completely incomprehensible. Sacrilege even! No, only when something better is invented, it’s time to develop serious bikes and cars.

Despite their ‘green’ image, electric vehicles are less efficient and more polluting than the gasoline vehicles they want to replace. They are not very ‘green’ at all. They are ‘white’ and they are elephants! The fad for electric vehicles is nothing more than a fad. Let’s be honest, the only race an electric bike will win is against another. How boring is that? Forget protective clothing and motorcycle gloves… it would be slower than watching lawnmower or turtle races! Why? Because batteries are heavy and inefficient.

Do not fool yourself into sitting in the ‘electric bike crowd’ and think that by doing so you are doing what is ecologically, environmentally and ideologically best for society. The planet will continue to warm up! Despite what most people believe, a high percentage of the world’s electricity is produced using “dirty fuels” such as oil and coal. And this is NOT It’s going to change any time soon. In fact, the more electric vehicles are produced, the more the world will depend on “dirty fuels” to meet the growing demand for electricity. And another interesting fact for you to ponder is this. Even with silly government subsidies, electric vehicles command a higher price than their gasoline or diesel equivalents.

Electric ones as the first car or motorcycle are useless. Sure, you can switch to one, but as soon as the weather drops and you turn on the car’s heater and your range cuts in half to about 30 miles, your chance of being stranded on the freeway during rush hour doubles. The answer, change your gasoline equivalent and do everything else too, at any time, at any distance. Don’t spend all day going to work!

Put on your motorcycle gloves for a reason…common sense.