Tesla not the answer to Hong Kong’s need for green urban transport
With its lithium batteries and carbon footprint, Tesla is looking at the past, not the future, and shouldn’t be subsidised by the Hong Kong government
Industry experts call for more support for Tesla growth
Business headline, June 21
And I call for eliminating the already massive subsidy that we give this particular brand of electric car. Tesla is not the answer to our need for green urban transport.
For starters, it was only two months ago that we reported the findings of an American investment research firm, Bernstein, that the Tesla 3 has a bigger carbon footprint than the equivalent BMW car in places that rely predominantly on fossil fuel for electricity generation.
That would be Hong Kong and if anyone wishes to point out that we also have nuclear in our electricity generation mix, let’s remember that the lethal plutonium 239 has a half life of 24,000 years and no-one has yet come up with a safe way of storing it for even a few hundred years. What a wonderful environmental savings on fossil fuel.
I have waited for Tesla’s rebuttal of these findings but I have seen nothing and I am prepared to accept that they are true. I have long suspected so anyway.