“An electric vehicle that generates it own electricity similar to the diesel electric locomotive is the correct way to go.”
It is more efficient to use a NG combined cycle plant to generate the electricity.
Plus, using electricity generated by nuclear, NG, hydro makes more use of available resources reducing demand on our oil reserves keeping prices more stabile.
Adding the onboard generator adds more complexity and more service center visits..
Adding the onboard generator adds more complexity and more service center visits..
Diesel-electric locomotives and submarines demonstrate very conclusively that you are wrong. I doubt that you can name anything more reliable than either How many times have you heard of a wrecker being sent out for either one?
And they are not nearly as complicated as what an electric grid that can service every auto and every truck and every piece of farm equipment, construction equipment plus heat every house in the US would be.
The photos of lithium mines, mining for maybe a .01% of future needs (a guess just to make a point) should be enough to make any reasonable person ponder the difficulties.