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[Ol Janx Spirit]

33. More than anything, EVs are a necessary step in the natural evolution of power production, and they

serve not only to expand our knowledge of storing energy for use in vehicles--but in the storage of energy for all sorts of uses. This technology will be the key to humans surviving off the planet if that is where civilization must go. And that eventual technology will not likely look anything like batteries of today--possibly hydrogen or other cells. We only get there by going through here. Virtually no one now even thinks about whale oil, but it dominated as a fuel for lighting in early America. Oil lamps are a fascinating subject in and of themselves and go back many millennia using oil from many sources over time. When you look at how humans actually behave, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that EV production hasn't been about saving the planet, but about providing it with a less-expensive and more reliable fuel source. When the Toyota Prius was developed in 1997 it wasn't really seen as a planet-saver but a way to buy a lot less gasoline that was constantly fluctuating in price. But that early Prius showed the world that electric motors actually had a lot of advantages over cars propelled directly by internal combustion engines even aside from the fuel savings. Human technology tends to move forward regardless of the impact on the planet--as we can painfully see now.