I wasn’t arguing so much as expressing pessimism as to our government of fools’ solution to the nonexistent problem of man caused global warming. I’m fully convinced that their ultimate goal-is to reduce our ability to move freely by forcing vehicles that are much less practical than the current petroleum fueled standard on us.
Odd that you mentioned being a scientist- I started out with a degree in biochemistry with a heavy side of physical chemistry which is why I’m so hung up on the first and second laws of thermodynamics which apparently no one in the EPA has ever heard of with their impossible CAFE standards. These are two fundamental aspects of our current reality that cannot be violated I got into computer modeling 25 years ago and I know enough about statistics and modeling to know all of this model based climate change is bullsh!t. So I see an artificial austerity getting ready to be rammed down our throats to solve a nonexistent problem and I see EVs as a step toward the austerity that’s planned for us by our self anointed “betters”.
A long winded way of saying that yes something more effective at energy storage than the current batteries may come along, and I am thinking of batteries as the electrochemical things that we have now, but I suspect that the goal isn’t saving the planet or saving transportation energy, but keeping the peasants in their place.
Just as an aside i was returning from FL on the interstate recently and I saw 6 Teslas being hauled to their destination on a diesel truck. Bit of irony there.
In a nutshell, FRiend...:)