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You're thinking about this from the wrong perspective.
Imagine a world where you have your battery replaced in less time than it takes to fill up a tank of gas, as opposed to waiting for your battery to recharge. Like when Android had replaceable batteries in their phones. I don't care how fast your charger was, replacing the battery was still faster. Same logic here.
Tesla actually showed this a couple years ago where they had 2 battery replacements in less time than it took to fill up a tank of gas.
And that would be a great infrastructure to have in place. Much like the tank exchange on propane. The problem, like so often in technology, is we overestimate in the short run and underestimate in the long run. We'll have an all electric transportation infrastructure, but not next year. Maybe about 30.
ICE is a lot more efficient than electricity for vehicular travel. Electricity isn't as efficient as gas at generating heat or motion. The problem with electricity is battery tech have not advanced as fast as gas efficiency.
Some cars and run 250mi in about 5 gallons of gas while Teslas can only get 250mi using batteries as heavy as a small compact car.
When the car was being developed, there wasn't the electrical grids like we have today. In 1925, only half of the US had electricity available. And that didn't mean that half of the US homes had it, only those with enough money could afford to have it installed. But it was available to those limited areas. Kinda hard to charge your electric car when you don't have electricity. Even when I was a kid back in the 50's, there were quite a few small burgs that still didn't have electricity as the locals didn't have near enough money to get their own generating plant or they lacked the funds to bring it into the town from a larger town. How soon we forget todays conveniences vs just 50 years ago.
Prof. Ferdinand Porsche was busy designing and developing his cars as early as 1896. The first fruit of his endeavors was an electric vehicle known as the Lohner-Porsche. It was driven by steered wheel-hub motors, and it caused a sensation at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. This was soon followed by an even more impressive example of Prof. Porsche innovative spirit. A racing car boasting four wheel-hub electric motors became the world’s first all-wheel drive passenger car and marked the automotive engineering debut of four-wheel brakes. No less visionary was Prof. Porsche’s next idea; in 1900 he combined his battery-powered wheel hub drive with a petrol engine, thus creating the serial hybrid drive principle.
slightly different, there are (or used to be) electric buses in San Francisco. They connect to overhead electric lines.
And, of course, BART Rapid Transit trains in SF, and whatever they call it in D.C., LA, and lots of other places are electric. Connect to electrified tracks under the train.
Um, okay? Does Birmingham, AL to Orlando, FL count? It was nice.
So what is your point?
You could have done the same in a bicycle. It’s more convenient in a gas powered car though.
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