[bk1000]

If…IF battery technology improves, I’m good with EVs. This is coming from someone who drives a gas powered race car for fun. EVs have fewer moving parts, they are fast as stink, and when people are sitting motionless in rush hour traffic they don’t make a sound or any emissions at all. I love gas powered cars, but I see the potential for EVs. We don’t use steam engines anymore because something better came along. Let’s see what happens. If nothing else they’d be great for inner city commuting. Not so great for OTR driving.

[Red Badger]

Imagine the Daytona 500 in absolute SILENCE..................

[Bernard]

they don’t make a sound or any emissions at all.

If /. when there is a rash of stupid pedestrians being run over by Ecars stuck in traffic who accelerate faster in a traffic jam than the on-foot Froggers can react to because there is no acceleration noise., the law suits will be fun to watch.

[Sequoyah101]

I have no opposition to something that is as good or better and there is a step-wise plan for implementation. Right now there is neither.

The mechanical simplicity of EV is compelling to be sure. Think of mining trucks and such. Electric wheel motors are simply great.

There is nothing now that will pull my gooseneck stock trailer or lowboy, no trackhoe, backhoe, dozer, loader or tractor replacements and certainly none that I can afford given that all my equipment is serviceable and paid for. I have tractors that serve me well that are older than many people on this board. They will easily outlive me if taken care of and fuel is available.

A shopping trip run to the city requires 300 miles range, as does a trip to see relatives. Just about any EV you can name either requires a charge or is a clencher of “will we make it?” where range is concerned for those trips. Until reliable range on this order for comparable cost and opex is achieved EV is an inconvenience to me making the EV not much more than a local machine. Not much more than a very expensive and glorified golf cart.

What happens to all the lifetime type iron that is forced into obsolescence? There is a lot of it. The pushers of this mess just don’t care. Not at all.

[mdmathis6]

Don’t have 60 grand to buy one but an ev would be a practical back and forth to work vehicle for me otherwise. 10 miles in 10 miles back.

[adorno]

We don’t use steam engines anymore because something better came along.

We stopped using electric vehicles because something better came along.

Fact is that electric vehicles came around before the ICE vehicles, and because ICE vehicles performed better, people forgot about EVs.

And yet, people kept trying to bring back EVs and they failed each time. Today's try at EVs will eventually die too, though a fringe market will remain, with EVs comprising between 2-3% of the total vehicles market. But, ICE is king and will be so for the next 50-100 years, until something better comes along, like nuclear-powered vehicles. ;)