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To: Sirius Lee

Why? I’ve already said electric vehicles are currently impractical and likely to remain so.

Have I said anything that isn’t true?

Long charging times are not a technical problem with EVs. It may be design problem, a financial problem or an infrastructure problem, but it’s not a technical problem and therefore not an inherent problem with EVs in general, just the current crop that were built to fit the current market.

We used devices for the better part of a century where we simply threw the batteries away and some of those (flashlights, for example) the batteries cost as much or more than the device. We didn’t say, “oh, flashlights aren’t practical because once the battery dies, they don’t work” We created battery distribution, with no additional technical changes to the battery and that solved the problem. We could do the same with EVs if there was the will to do so.

That doesn’t change that there are plenty of other serious issues with the current crop of EVs (the grid being the main one) that can’t be solved without technical advancement and others that require serious infrastructure solutions.


148 posted on 07/19/2021 1:42:20 PM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident)
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To: chrisser
Long charging times are not a technical problem with EVs. It may be design problem, a financial problem or an infrastructure problem, but it’s not a technical problem and therefore not an inherent problem with EVs in general, just the current crop that were built to fit the current market.

This statement alone shows that you have no clue what you are talking about. There are tons of technical challenges to fast-charging batteries: Voltage limitations, heating problems, chemical breakdown. The idea that these are not technical issues is scientifically illiterate...

171 posted on 07/19/2021 7:13:30 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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