RE: The first five paragraphs must have been written by a 12 year old at best. A silly, facile comparison
Can you elaborate more? I think it is essential to compare EVs with gas powered cars to get an indication of how much it will cost the car owner.
I’d really be pleasantly surprised if your average 12 year old could write like that.
To compare the operating cost of an IC to an EV using only the cost of a battery to start the car for the operating cost is horribly incomplete and dishonest. The starter battery in an IC is just a fraction of the opex of the vehicle.
I do not favor the EV but if there is to be a comparison it needs to be complete and honest. Superficial comparisons as this one don’t help the argument one bit. The author should leave the first five paragraphs alone and stick with the latter on resource base for the EV, something he may have some credibility about.
That the argument posed in the first five paragraphs is facile should be obvious to just about anyone with even a basic understanding of vehicles. The understanding presented is not even at a basic level.