The Challenges of Electrification

There are some significant co-benefits associated with moving away from the fossil vehicles towards low emissions vehicles, electric vehicles and so on. I think there are many reasons to think that on transport at least, there are some positive signs. In other areas it is much more challenging just because of the scale economies and large volume of production that we see in vehicles on aviation or energy intensive industries. The largest single source of energy in this country is natural gas for heat. None of them are very easier, very cheap. So, either we're talking, we would have to be talking about electrification, moving towards heat pumps. Our climate's not terribly good for that,. Some of the most poorly