OK...what if each EV came with a mini windmill mounted on its roof? Maybe a mini windmill with solar panels for blades? Wouldn’t that eliminate the need for frequent re-charging?
The infrastructure is centered around cities and major highways, especially interstates. That’s great until you have to get off of the major highways and drive through a charger dead zone. If I had to drive a Tesla from where I am right now to where one of my kids goes to college with a charge similar to how much gas I have in my tank, I would be in trouble because there are no chargers for about 100 miles. The only option would be to take a lengthy detour to find a place to plug in, and that is still about 70 miles to the nearest charger. There are gas stations all over the same routes, so the choice is clear.
I think I’ll wait until Dewalt
produces their version of an
EV.
The article didn’t mention some dealers not even selling certain popular brands anymore as a direct or indirect cause of EVs coming on the market. We have lost 2 major brands in our town so far. Sometimes there is apparently just too big an expense to convert various dealer services to change over to what the manufacturer expects. In my opinion, the manufacturer will learn the hard way in the long run.
I understand why this push for EVs came out on Joe Biden’s watch. Why not? Everything else he did was doomed for failure too.
Unless you charge directly from solar, from an engineering perspective, the number of times energy is being converted makes the idea a non-starter.
Energy is lost in each conversion before it is finally converted into forward motion. I don’t know for certain, but I’d think the loss charging and discharging in the battery is substantial.