Oversized electric golf cart fanbois are not amused at these sort of articles.
Don’t worry TeslaGator and the Libtard government plan to prop them up
“ Not only do EVs require an astonishing amount of mining—an estimated 500,000 pounds of rock and minerals must be upturned to make a single battery, physicists point out—but their carbon footprint isn’t much smaller than gas-powered cars.
It turns out that EVs actually require a lot more CO2 to produce than gas-powered cars. EVs can make that up, but it takes a great deal of time because EVs also often run on electricity generated from fossil fuels.”
Big bonfires coming from exploding batteries.
Subsidy: life support for an idea that would die if left on its own.
The cool thing about an EV is you’ll be able to buy them for next to nothing in ten years.
Because the residuals are shit, because of the battery life / replacement costs, but nobody wants to talk about it.
Maybe because they lack the range to do anything meaningful?
Maybe because it takes forever to charge them?
Maybe because on EV trucks you can’t tow anything heavier than a kitchen sink without taking a massive range hit?
Maybe because it costs almost as much to replace the batteries as it would to buy a new car?
Maybe because they get totaled out after a minor collision?
Or maybe it’s because they spontaneously combust for no reason?
Read later.
Every time I see scores of cordless tools discarded because the battery is shot and replacing the battery is about as expensive as the tool...
I picture landfills full of cheaply built electric cars discarded because their batteries are shot and it’s owners decided replacing the battery isn’t worth it. Maybe it is my imagination but I couldn’t bring myself to buy what I perceive to be a “disposable” car.
I think this technology is at least a decade away of being practical. I looked seriously at one and can’t justify the cost. The range sux. And if you put as many miles each year on a car as I do, there isn’t always a charging station like a gas station and then you have to wait to charge. But the whole fuel economy thing - I wouldn’t save enough in gas to justify the price. Resale sux too, because used EVs have less range. I could go on and on but it’s just not practical.
Meanwhile, 2 million Tesla cybertrucks are on order