Its poor form to ridicule something you don’t know anything about at least argue from a point of fact China EVs have better range than Teslas now. China is kicking butts and taking names with battery tech. They are a country with few liquid hydrocarbons and large amounts of power grid capacity plus dense cities and charges everywhere.
Last time I was in China every condo and apartment building had at least L2 triple phase by the 15 poles with two charge guns per L2 pole all along the edges of the parking lots.
Urbanites need a over might L2 charge once per week or less. 50% of new cars in Shanghai where I was are now EVs because they are ten times cheaper per mile than petrol. China doesn’t mandate EVs they are just economically better there. LFP blade packs also are fireproof they survive the steel spike completely driven though the pack while full charged. The electrolyte not flammable and those packs use no cobalt,nickel or manganese. They use lithium, aluminum,carbon, iron ,phosphate.
“Just a single week’s worth of water from hydraulic fracturing in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale has the potential to produce enough lithium for 300 electric vehicle batteries or 1.7 million smartphones, the researchers said. “
That’s one week of flowback there are nearly 100,000 active wells in the Permian basin with 500+ drilled by your truly over the years. We knew the flowback was loaded with lithium it’s how to extract it vs all the other ions UT Austin GO HORNS! Solved that issue.
https://electrek.co/2024/02/15/byd-signs-deal-ford-gm-supplier-use-lfp-battery-packs/
We’re not China. Your rationale is top-down central planning utopia not rooted in proven American consumer behavior. The vast majority of Americans don’t want solar panels. We don’t want wind turbines. And we don’t want electric cars. And we don’t want to be told what to do by China or the EV mafia.