But it still takes too long to charge. I don’t want to hang around Blythe, California while that darn thing charges.
I want to pull up and lock onto a kiosk which swaps the battery in a minute.
It’s the friggin 21st century. We shouldn’t have to wait a long time to fuel a vehicle.
Charging time is a matter of tech, which always improves with time. We’re at the birth of this new tech still. It’ll eventually outlast and outpower (already does outpower) ICE.
And even that “solution” to the recharging problem is a non-starter. Who wants to spend an exorbitant amount of money on an EV, only to have to constantly swap the single most expensive part for one of unknown quality and condition?
The EV mania is agenda-driven mass psychosis. Elon Musk has said that converting entirely to EVs would require DOUBLING the capacity of the power grid, and others have estimated that it would have to be TRIPLED. Anyone who seriously believes that a total EV switchover can or will happen in our lifetimes, stand on your head. For one thing, the very same “environmentally conscious” people pushing EVs are the same people who adamantly oppose building more power plants or transmission lines. And no, we’re never going to be able to generate the needed power with windmills and solar panels, not to mention the storage problem. Also, an endless array of essential products are made from gas and petroleum-derived hydrocarbons (including a ton of the parts on that magical Tesla). Eliminating the use of petroleum for fuel will only drive up the cost of all those products manufactured from it.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows this whole thing is a fantasy.
That bodes well for an intermediate market — hot swappable battery kiosks.