I’m with you on that. If not for the daunting physics problem of energy storage via a battery, EVs would be vastly superior to ICEs. Assuming they do turn out to be viable on a mass scale and become the dominant technology, we will look back and wonder how we ever put up those hot, greasy gas burners and their complexity and their lame torque curve.
except that the globull warmists are moving forward regardless of technology
cuz the whole green agenda is about control
nothing else
Electric Vehicles will be viable someday, I have zero doubt. It makes a lot of sense. We will find out someday, somehow, how to safely and inexpensively store electricity, and speed up the charging cycle. If someone said you could charge a car fully in 15 min, and have ready access to do so like you generally can when filling the tank of an ICE vehicle, and the car can go 400 miles, we simply would not be having these conversations.
We might be having conversations about how due to the dangers of spontaneous battery combustion, you shouldn’t park the car in your garage, ship them in seagoing vessels, or utilize underground parking lots, but you wouldn’t have to force them on people. People would generally buy them.
It will get there. It may be in two years. It may be in 100 years. But it will eventually be found in some way.
The concept of vehicles running on electricity is fine. The current state of technology is completely lacking.
It makes zero sense to sacrifice our economy and our freedom to accomodate this insanity.
Doubly so since the people pushing it are doing so on faulty premises-that we must do it to save the planet. That premise is absolute hogwash.
If they put the pipes into the ground to pull up oil, and there was no oil to come up, sure. I would be all for finding some other way to be able to drive a car and would be willing to accept a stunted alternative rather than no alternative at all.
But doing it because deranged Leftists scream we are all going to die as a result of climate change if we don’t makes me dig in my heels all the harder.
“Assuming they do turn out to be viable on a mass scale and become the dominant technology...”
It’s never going to happen. Something about pesky molecular bonds and valence states. Right now, batteries have 1/13 of the specific energy density as hydrocarbon fuels. In other words, they have a LONG way to go and research has been going on for 40 years to make an improved EV battery. Until we invent unobtainium, we are going to be stuck at that 1/13 figure, have long charging times, and have lots of toxic waste.