The advances in electric are promising, but it concerns me that electric is viewed as the complete answer.
What about mining?
What about electric generation?
What about charging times?
What about charging station availability?
What about battery disposal?
It’s as if none of these issues matter.
What about mining?
Most companies are going with a non lithium solid state battery and the new LF lithium batteries Tesla currently uses and ssb batteries are 100% recyclable.
Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz invest in solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy | TechCrunch
Solid-State EV Battery Plot Thickens As GM Inks Deal with POSCO (cleantechnica.com)
BMW and Ford Invest in Solid-State Battery Startup for Future EVs (caranddriver.com)
What about electric generation?
Nearly all states produce more electricity than they use.
What about charging times?
Getting fast every month.
What about charging station availability?
Charging stations are going up everywhere. Restauarants hotels, gas stations etc.
“What about charging station availability?”
Browns fan -Cleveland??
342 charging station in Cleveland, 24 new ones in just the past 90 days.
Cleveland-Elyria Charging Stats:
342 Total Stations 34 Free Stations 24 New Stations (90 days) 51 Fast Chargers 12 CHAdeMO Plugs 26 CCS Plugs 24 Superchargers 138 J-1772 Plugs
Top Charging Networks in Cleveland-Elyria
ChargePoint 43 stations Supercharger 24 stations Tesla Destination 17 stations SemaConnect 16 stations
“It’s as if none of these issues matter.”
It’s as if you haven’t looked at the data.