The Billion-Dollar Campaign to Electrify Transport | Monica Araya | TED Countdown 

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I am 100% for going electric and I also know what cars are the safest and fastest (not to mention best looking IMO). I have questions about this talk like where this data about legacy automakers actually pushing for electric is. They've been dragging their feet the entire way while one manufacturer of car is leading the way because electric cars are what they do. I love TED talks but this one is seriously distorting the facts. I think campaigns like this are awesome but giving half hearted credit to the company who showed the way is just plain disappointing, especially as all the others laughed at them and only now trying to make the switch because they have to.

In Serbia, there are protests against the digging of lithium, which is very much needed for this change. I agree that change is needed, but not for the price of rivers, fertile land and clean air.

Give up your dreams in countries with a high exchange rate in their currency. Go to Africa and see over 80 percent of people cannot afford a vehicle.

The economics of electronic cars will cause an exponential shift on its own.

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Just don't raise the price of owning a diesel or petrol vehicle. This only makes it harder for people to afford electric vehicles later on. Drive innovation, don't tax the poor.

I urge everybody reading this to advocate for improved public transport in cities! Moving away from privatised mobility will have a bigger and better impact on the environment than (extremely costly) switching all cars to electric ones. I'm happy to answer questions regarding this so feel free to comment! :)

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I'll scrap my diesel sprinter when I can get a BEV, Tesla Would be nice.

There are plenty of existing organisations aiming to electrify transport. Why are we giving this organisation no-one has heard of, a billion dollars? They don't even appear on the first page of google results for "Drive Electric".

Infrastructure wasn't even mentioned? It should be the first point on your list. Crippling electric grids won't be able to cope with 10% adoption in some regions..

While electric cars don't emit exhaust fumes, they do use batteries which can emit toxic fumes. Most electricity used to power electric vehicles is generated from non-renewable energy sources, which can have a negative impact on both our health and the environment.

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I see everyone still believes EVs are the way. People, we need a MODAL shift, not a fuel one. People need to drop our focus on vehicles in general, particularly in cities, and move to active and public transit. It’s that simple. EDIT: re-worded to better convey my opinion.

It's so selfish to think we have to save the planet! WE DON'T HAVE TO SAVE THE PLANET. We have to save humanity from whatever the planet is going to do if we don't stop polluting

Sweet dreams are made of this. Just curious what this right side of history will do with not 100% recyclable batteries and who will loose their health doing so. Modern li-ion degrades about 10% of capacity per year even if it’s not heavily used, so after few years you need to deal with replacement, and it’s not fully renewable process, it is looks like to me at the moment that pollution will change its own form and will be moved from one place to another. If you are talking about make world better in context of your home only, then yes, it will be better for one’s, not for entire planet. Don’t get me wrong, I build and used electric vehicle 7 years back and it’s great, but populists show you only one side of the coin and what is on another doesn’t looks like dramatically better than existing situation. I would fully support clear plan how to deal with constant battery replacement and recycling, but so far just hearing that somebody will do something when we face it. Good luck.

Systemic solutions are critical. Charging stations are critical missing link. Make that happen seamlessly and you will have a winning campaign

"If that's still happening in 2050, we're screwed". We screwed anyway.

The problem I have about global change. Is that weather changes all the time. It’s the nature of nature. The leaders are trying to get you to believe about global change. The fact of the matter is that the atmosphere is a fraction of 1%. If America does great on emissions and all the other countries do really bad that is safe in America because we’ve done so good. If the atmosphere above us is bad over one area it affects the whole planet and America will be bad like Asia or India. Another thought is that there have been 5 extinctions and they happened even with no emissions from us. Solar flares are the biggest global threats. Also you can fact check this info. Our Government is not exactly being honest about global change time. They are only giving us this certain time to go on about global change. How about all of the other day and ages that were too cold to live, too hot to live. We will have another extinction it’s just when. Nothing we can do to change that except for a type of war that could wipe out its civilization. Oh Year that’s right like your President Biden said, New World Order has already stated. This administration is evil. It is what it is. They are suppose to keep us safe. They clearly are not doing a good job.

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Firstly, power production must be ecological. If electricity is still produced in coal/oil based power plants, it will not be eco at all - see Germany. Secondly, most of the infrastructure must be upgraded to even send so much power needed to charge all the electrical vehicles. Right now infrastructure is still old and malfunctioning in many countries. And finally, biggest change must happen in China, USA and India, that produce together over 50% of entire CO2 emission in the world.

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I love when ted talks get into stuff like this

If you do that and go all electric cars good luck if you're stuck in a snow

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But how is electiricity made, we burn fossil fuels.

The cars, buses, trucks etc is nothing compared to the 65.000 transport ships that pollutes as much as 1.000000 cars each. Besides. most of the power used to power electric cars are coal produced

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Every question to Monica is" that's the point "Question. I mean y is she answering the question with "that's the point " Obviously its a point to know thats y its a question.. So do u think there will b no more motor sports anymore? Even if so there will b no more thrill and uniqueness of speeds..

Thought the title said “Electrify trans people”. I was like “Why?!?”

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You need to burn fuel to recharge batteries and you need to pollute to create them....

Here in the US, we cannot properly utilize our resources. We do not have the infrastructure or investment to upgrade it to be able to support electric transportation. How can a shopping mall afford to put charging stations for the number of vehicles that will require them? If I want to drive from LA to Las Vegas where do I charge my car when I visiting? What if we don't have time to wait for a car to charge?

Can someone smart explain this - where does electricity come from? 80% World electricity=Burning fossil fuels, 20%= Clean ie wind, solar, hydro etc. The fuel is being burnt in a power plant instead of an internal combustion engine. Used car batteries eventually will end up in a land fills/oceans. Electric vehicles are like my mobile phone. It doesn't emit CO2, but when we're charging 7 Billion of our mobiles every night, there's a coal/diesel plant burning somewhere to charge it. Ratio varies with countries, but on a global scale fossil fuel generated electricity still dominates 80% share by far. Before going electric transport, shouldn't we actually be shifting the source input to more clean / renewables?

The move to EVs will happen regardless... ...nobody outlawed horses or gave cars subsidies (at that time), they were just better.

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Renewable energy will never solely power a nation with out including a substantial amount of nuclear

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Electric cars aren’t any cleaner than fossil fuel powered cars. Just because they say its 0 emission, behind the scene they burn 12 to 13 times more fossil fuel to just get the lithium-ion batteries. It is already 13 times more harmful for the environment. The cobalt is found under water and the machines that are used to get the cobalt for the batteries are using thousands of litres of fossil fuel to produce a single car with un-reusable batteries that cannot be recycled because of chemicals inside of it. You already can see that people with older Teslas are selling them because Tesla charges you 20k to 25k for a new battery and its not really worth it for something like a Tesla model 3 that the battery is roughly the same price as the car, so the owner sees no point at changing that battery. Even if we replace petrol or diesel powered engines, the batteries become even a bigger problem since they are not even recycle-able with all of those chemicals that are not possible to separate. Second problem comes in when we want to replace the petrol powered cars. There are more than billion cars on the road now. Even by 2035 there is no way that all of these cars can be recycled and re used for electric cars of the future. We are talking 1 billion automobiles excluding bikes that each weigh over a ton of metal and plastic and copper. The system of these cars is out of hand. Some companies are rejecting this standard like Ferrari or Lamborghini. The emission of todays supercars are so close to 0 that it doesn’t make any sense to purchase an electric car. In my opinion rather cheaper cars like VW group cars or Toyota’s automobile industry should go electric that will be more budget friendly for the mass market. Something like bmw M or AMG has such a low volume of sales that it isn’t even worth spending money to make the soulless and electric. companies like Bugatti, Porsche or Pagani altogether sell 1/5 of what Toyota RAV4 sells in just North America. It is an absolute waste of time and thought to make these masterpieces electric. Third of all, electricity comes at a cost. The money that government spends on a single wind turbine is absolutely insane! And lastly, it is absolutely impossible to make Asia go electric. People in Asia, specifically Middle East is already struggling with finding their own daily electricity to just turn on the lamp and you expect them to buy a 33k dollar Tesla that is already 13times more harmful than what they have in the parking. Just imagine trying to replace only the taxis in India or china! Good luck tho…

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to me, it sounds like they are just trying to make money

Sounds like a plan until the power goes out

So many people do not understand that electricity comes from dams coal and oil. No making electric vehicles do you need batteries people do not understand the distraction it takes place in the environment to dig up the order for the batteries in the pollution that China will make and making these batteries for the United States of America because we do not make them here. Please pray for wisdom not just change. Green energy through electricity still takes old fashion means to create electricity. Did you people know that the windmills we are making are all made in China. I wish people would do the research and understand when they’re talking about all these new things but it’s not going to be instant clean. We need to invent new ways of making electricity that is actually healthy for the environment nothing we are doing at the moment is really healthy for the environment people are spending so much money to lie to the public. Because it’s political not practical.

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You haven't done anything to fix ALL the problems and pollution from your electric cars! Take all the gasoline emissions out and start polluting the soil and ground water with heavy metals and toxic chemicals! Use even more petroleum in order to make the plastic electric cars. Vehicles that can't cross a State in a day - food and product shortages! Higher prices! Before you start trying to force everyone to drive awful vehicles, FIX THEIR PROBLEMS!