The upshot for me is I don’t want an electric vehicle at this time. While ICE powered vehicles would still have value because the infrastructure is already there for them, current electric vehicles types would be worthless.
Has anyone even talked about simple things, such as someone driving an EV from Boston to Florida, and will stay overnight at a motel?
Are the motel owners going to have to renovate their facilities to include charging stations with each room? Will that be done, or will there be more “tax incentives” or “tax breaks” to give them money to do it?
Or will they just expect people to charge their cars at certain, specified places. Maybe they will. And maybe motel owners will see an opportunity to make charging facilies available as an attraction to entice people to stay there, even without those inducements.
I don’t have an issue with EVs per se. I see advantages in construction techniques and simplicity of operation, in much the same way jet propulsion provided increased simplicity and improved performance over reciprocating engines.
And I like the reduced noice and increased torque.
But the delivery and charging aspect is enormous, and not being addressed in the least.
True. That tech you linked to sounds very very promising- I won’t consider current ev’s, and do not beleive we can create I frastructure to keep them charged. We already have rol.ing brown outs and complete blackouts in many states due to high demand- there’s no way we can create enough electricty to fuel a nation full of ev’s- and the waiting lines at the charging stations are gonna be brutal and dangerous as folks get upset for one reason or another.
I’ll stick to gas for now. But am kinda excited to see that new tech roll out if it can.
I’ll bet though that states will charge high prices to,use their roads though because there won’t be any fuel taxes or electric charges/increases. One way or another, we are gonna pay for whatever tech become dominant