“Get woke, go broke!.”
I have been wrong about what people will buy. I thought that no one would buy bottled water. (I still haven’t.) I thought no one would pay five dollars for a cup of coffee. (I still haven’t.) Having said that, we did problems in my thermodynamics class forty years ago to determine what worked and what didn’t regarding energy. Windmills, for example, even given the most generous assumptions, did not. Solar, even given huge increases in efficiency and decreases in cost, did not. By did not, I mean the payout was so far off that the devices ceased functioning long before they paid for themselves. Another thing we worked problems on was electric cars. Again, generous assumptions. Again, they weren’t worth it.
To make electric cars viable requires infrastructure, decreased charging time and long battery life. None of those things will be resolved in our lifetimes without a huge cost that will not repay itself. You simply can’t get more efficient in terms of money and usability than gas and diesel.
In order to make electric cars viable you have to maintain the fiction that if we don’t convert then the entire would will be destroyed. Ridiculous.
“To make electric cars viable requires infrastructure, decreased charging time and long battery life.”
I commute 17 miles each way to/from work. Assuming a diversion for groceries or beer I MIGHT use it 50 miles between charges.
And I can set a timer to charge after midnight and enjoy $0.09 per KWH for power, making the cost per mile extraordinarily cheap.
But I would need a second vehicle. No doubt. And I wouldn’t even be able to park the second in my garage where the electric was charging overnight.
So, no.
A better investment is to buy a new Honda Civic for $19k. It gets 40MPG and lasts at least 200k miles...trouble free. Or Ford Focus or similar.
A nice adjunct for the fancy truck with all the voodoo.
“In order to make electric cars viable you have to maintain the fiction that if we don’t convert then the entire would will be destroyed. Ridiculous.”
You are forgetting the value of virtue signalling.