tdiller wrote:
Only two things run on batteries...
Golf carts and
Toys.
Until a vehicle can go 3-400 miles on a charge and refill/recharge in five minutes and do it again and again all day it'll never sit in my garage.
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Cold hard reality that some folk refuse to believe is that electric vehicles are NOT NEW.. Nope, in the 1890s there were MORE electric vehicles on the road than internal combustion or even steam powered..
Cold hard reality, electric vehicles back then only could get about 25-50 miles of driving and took overnight to recharge..
One Pioneer of electric vehicles from the 1890s produced electric vehicles up to 1901, sold his company off and went to work for Locomobile to design their FIRST GASOLINE POWERED VEHICLE.. He saw the main down fall of electric vehicles was the batteries..
1980s saw a couple of electric vehicles on the market, but those also suffered from lack of distance and charging issues.
While battery tech has improved SLIGHTLY over the years it still is very weak compared to gas or diesel for distance, cost to own, maintenance and refueling.
Not to mention, the notion that electric vehicles are a "clean" mode of transportation is BS..
There IS far more "E" waste generated in the building of EV batteries..
Not to mention adding overhead to already weak electric grid..
Then there is the mere fact of the "pollution" of supposed lack of..
There IS NO FREE LUNCH, energy is energy, it is dirty no matter how far away it is generated..
