Why You Should NOT Buy an Electric Car!

“It’s only a matter of time before your home owners insurance goes up to cover risk of fire.”

I suspect that’s already the case, and even more so with auto insurance, as something is making the the cost soar way ahead of inflation (even real, rather than reported, inflation).

Electric motors are efficient. There’s not much room for improvement there. To go a given distance takes a given number of ampere-hours out of the battery. You have to put that same number back into the battery, and that doesn’t happen fast. The ratio of minutes required to put miles into a battery vs miles put into a gas tank remains 10+X. An order of magnitude. This will not improve. It is a physics limit. Not an engineering limit.

Actually it can happen faster, even with current tech. (Get it?!) You just need to increase voltage and charge moves faster. Yes, there is a physics limit in motor efficiency, but that has no bearing on battery recharge time, which definitely has room for improvement. Some with storage capacity, although that does appear to be getting close to the limit, or at least to the point of extremely diminished return.

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