Electric cars are a dud... They were when they were introduced to the public back in the 19th century... Now that it’s the 21st century, the improvements are vast and the result is essentially the same... You can fill a car with gas, drive 350 to 400 miles, stop for 10 minutes and drive another 350 to 400 miles. If you have the very best electric car, you can drive for 200 to 250 miles... You can then spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours recharging your car and drive another 200 or so miles.
Even if electric car makers someday attain the ability to go farther and be charged in less time... That ‘someday’ is many decades away and frankly... There is no need to be bothered. Gas engines are more efficient with each passing year, more reliable and more enjoyable to drive which makes the likelihood of Electric car sales ever rising above single digit percentage mark less and less likely in our lifetime and even in the lifetime of our children.
Every nickle in in taxpayer subsidies paid out to support the electric car market for the rich and famous, is a nickle wasted. Trump should end all subsidies toward this failed and foolish notion of electric cars actually becoming an alternative to the internal combustion engine.
Driving a car is much more than driving from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’... It’s about the roar of an engine, the smell of oil and gas, the feel of raw power, torque and gravity being controlled by your foot pushing a gas peddle.
The electric vehicle experience will never compare.
I agree with you. I would be the perfect person for a electric car. I live les than 10 miles from where I work and I don’t drive much after I get off work.
An electric car would be great. I could drive to work and then home and not worry about needing a charge till I got home. Even a couple of stops after work wouldn’t be a problem. Just plug it in when I get home...
EXCEPT...I don’t and won’t pay a huge premium for the privilege. The cost is way oo high and I would still need an extra car for when I did have to do some real long distance driving.
If I could get one for less than $3000, I might go for it. But for $50,000, I’ll pass!
Innovations in new battery technology are coming faster and faster as mfrs race to be the new ‘standard’ in electric car batteries. Faster charging, Longer driving and longer lifetime usage will all come, and fairly soon. GM, Volvo, Ford, Mercedes and several others are committed to the electric car and are pouring billions into R&D.
The big problem is there is no current (PUN ALERT!) charging stations on every mile of roadways to accommodate the number of cars that will be on the road shortly. AND even if there were, the Electric Grid could not handle the amount of power delivered in its present state. So The Grid will have to be replaced with something else that is acceptable by the public and the governments of the world.
Tesla himself envisioned a ‘wireless’ power transfer of energy back in his time, but he didn’t have the tools or technology (microwaves!)to accomplish the task. It may well come to fruition, and replace the grid that HE invented, not Edison!..........................
Oh yes it will! with the exception of the 'roar' and the smells! Electric motors deliver huge amounts of TORQUE and POWER, INSTANTANEOUSLY! The tire manufacturers will have a booming business until people learn, or computers control, the power that gets dumped to the wheels in a microsecond!.................