F150 Lightning Road Trip & Ike Gauntlet Pull
TFL drove the new F150 Lightning from Michigan to Colorado Test Configuration: Mostly highway miles at 70-75 mph Total Miles: 1225 Total Charging Time: ~ 5 hours Summary: (Fail) Efficiency at ...
Forum Discussion
valhalla360 wrote:
Electric motors have been better than ICE going back to the 1800's. The problem has been and continues to be energy storage. The current solution is to keep adding more batteries and bringing down the price via economy of scale but those limits are being reached and the supply of minerals for batteries may soon reverse those cost improvements.
This. I can't escape the thought that EV's re just trading one set of issues for another. The sourcing of materials for the batteries is ecologically damaging and presents a heavy dependence on foreign nations and it's a finite resource. Not ignoring the fact that those foreign nations have questionable labor laws. How is this better? The manufacture of batteries is very caustic and hardly green, and then there is the eventual disposal of batteries - hazardous materials.
When these issues get brought up they somehow get swept under the rug.
