By the time they’re cheap enough to buy, the tech will be outdated... Besides... Nothing beats the internal combustion engine for longevity. Model T’s are still on the road... That can’t be said for the first electric vehicle ever made.
I think this defines “cheap enough to buy” actually.
But I’m still waiting, for them to get even cheaper…
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Electric engines have very long lives and require minuscule maintenance. It is the batteries that are the problem.
Electrical vehicles got beat out in the market more than 100 years ago.
They are still, even with all the updates of a century, only viable as a niche vehicle... and as much as some people like to claim otherwise, there is absolutely no change to this coming in the short term.
A commuter vehicle, fine. A general Purpose Vehicle? Not anytime soon.
For folks who only need a commuter vehicle, go for it. Me, I’m sticking to the vehicle I can hop in at a moments notice and drive a thousand miles in a day if I need to (and yes I have done this) without needing to plan out my refueling, or wasting hours every one or two hundred miles to refuel.
There are use cases where electric vehicles make sense, if I ran a fleet of service vehicles for instance that I new traveled daily less than 100 miles or so to do their jobs, I’d look at them etc. However, as long as we giving tax breaks for buying them, don’t tell me they are “winning” in the market place.
Jay Leno as a 1912 or 13 Baker I believe that still runs.