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Batteries are mostly there already. It's the infrastructure to support ev charging that is lagging a bit. But it is catching up fast.
Quick charging technology has brought down charging times significantly, and some of the charging solutions just in the horizon will bring times close to the time it takes to refuel gasoline.
Sorry, we are not there yet. We need another break through in battery tech to get closer to a seamless transition from ICE vehicles. Have they eliminated cobalt from the current EV offerings yet ? If not, this will become a huge problem.
Sorry, we are not there yet. We need another break through in battery tech to get closer to a seamless transition from ICE vehicles. Have they eliminated cobalt from the current EV offerings yet ? If not, this will become a huge problem.
Correct. It's going to need to be a quantum leap in battery technology in order to compete. The battery technology is the biggest weakness of these cars.
Just bought a Plug-in electric hybrid (PhEV) that was just as economical as a gas equivalent. And if you drive very little, you really would never need to touch gas.
Too bad more manufacturers are not thinking in this direction.
The poor still buy used cars. Many people cannot come up with thousands to buy a new car.
Electric car domination is inevitable, as are electric ships...the holdout will be electric passenger aircraft, simply because of the power requirements. Ironically passenger jets account for 9% of the world's carbon emmissions. That's a lot.
Electric car domination is inevitable, as are electric ships...the holdout will be electric passenger aircraft, simply because of the power requirements. Ironically passenger jets account for 9% of the world's carbon emmissions. That's a lot.
Batteries are either going to have to get way lighter, or DiLithium Crystal technology will have to be invented. There is no good reason to move from cheap, efficient fossil fuels. NONE. Carbon isn't a legitimate worry. If EV's can be made to be more efficient, and less costly than ICE, that would be the only reason to use them.
Apparently in your world normal cars never ever catch fire? LOL.
Apparently? I didn't imply anything of the sort, cars catch fires for all sort of reasons. The owner of that tesla is not buying another one, he said it on camera. I won't go into the rate of fires, I'll wait a few more years until those new tesla's start to age.
Apparently? I didn't imply anything of the sort, cars catch fires for all sort of reasons. The owner of that tesla is not buying another one, he said it on camera. I won't go into the rate of fires, I'll wait a few more years until those new tesla's start to age.
Uh huh. They don't even know what caused that one as it happened what? 1 day ago? You wont go into the rate of fired because you know its nonsense. There are 300,000 Teslas on the road, which have driven 7.5 billion miles. They've had 40 fires reported. basically 5 fires for every billion miles. gas cars? 55 fires per billion miles. THATS why you wont go into the rate of fires. But instead want to argue for some future unknowable fear that it will magically become worse.
My next car will be electric. I need some solar panels on my house as well.
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