“The weight and charging time, not to mention the issues with mining lithium and cobalt. It’s not even close. Simply put electricity doesn’t store well.”
Educate yourself.
The weight of the battery is not a problem. Electric motors have awesome torque. Acceleration does take energy but most is recovered through regenerative braking.
Batteries can be charged in 15 minutes giving a 200 mile range. Most charging is done at night while owner sleeps.
The industry is moving away from cobalt. Presently, only 6% of world cobalt goes into batteries and going lower. AND YOU BENEFIT FROM THAT COBALT.
Most of lithium mined comes from copper and nickel mines. AND YOU BENEFIT FROM THAT COPPER AND NICKEL.
Batteries do store well. Newer batteries are showing charge/discharge efficiencies of 98%.
I get that you an electric vehicle fanboy.
However, the article is written by a prof in Syracuse, NY where they have killer cold winters.
Electric vehicles are going to be a disaster there.
But—some lessons will just have to be learned the hard way.