“why it’s not quite the time to buy an electric car”
As far as I’m concerned it’ll NEVER be time to buy one......as a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have one if it was given to me.
EVs haven’t got one damned thing to do with “saving the planet”.
“EVs haven’t got one damned thing to do with “saving the planet”.”
Nailed it in one sentence.
“As far as I’m concerned it’ll NEVER be time to buy one......as a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have one if it was given to me.”
LOL!
A few lesser known facts.
Oil consumption in the US is rising. Not declining. EVs are not being sold in significant numbers, or more carefully worded, they are not being driven in any significant numbers. Oil consumption rises because the people buying EVs live in cities and they were not driving much to begin with. If you shut off the gasoline consumption of someone who consumed very little ever, you don’t save much gasoline.
People haul heavier things than in the past. There are big horsepower tractors out there plowing and harvesting bigger and bigger acreage. This consumes oil.
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.