Foreseeable electric car catastrophes

Americanthinker.com ^ | 1/8/2022 | Michael Abel

[Glad2bnuts]

Is it the Chevy Volt that has an onboard gas powered generator, to top off the battery charge for the EV portion of the car? Like Betamax, is a superior EV, but is going to lose out to the fancy cars with very fast top end speeds. For a commuter car, how could you beat one of these Volts?

[roadcat]

Once most of the world is no longer allowed to own a personal vehicle, because the cost will be prohibitive, including the taxes and the cost of electricity to charge them, the rich and powerful will have access to THE BEST at no cost to them at all.

That's the one-world gov't plan, to stop private ownership of vehicles and force public transportation on the masses. Not that it'll be cheaper - public transportation is heavily subsidized by taxes and the farebox generates perhaps less than 30 percent of costs. They're just shifting expenses to those having private ownership of vehicles via taxes and fees. The rich will afford it. The gov't power-brokers will have access to single-occupancy vehicles for free.

[Glad2bnuts]

Yes that is true, and the hoi poloi will not even be allowed a private drive in the country to see where the uber wealthy live, or into the newly “wilded” portions of the continents.

[qaz123]

Whatever you want to call them, call them.

Coal or natural gas....comes out of the ground...I’ll call them fossil fuel.

They aren’t nuclear and they aren’t wind, solar and hydro.

[qaz123]

I do not care..... I’ll continue to drive my Silverado.

[2nd amendment mama]

Toyota and other companies are going to a sold state battery thta is half in size and uses no or very little lithium and is right now 30% less cost to produce. SSB are also way less expensive and are very fast charging.

I guess you didn't read (or comprehend) the article that you posted. It says the very opposite of what you said.

WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO MASS PRODUCE SOLID STATE BATTERIES?

Carmakers and technology companies have produced solid-state li-ion battery cells one at a time in a lab, but have been unable so far to scale that up to a mass production.

It is hard to design a solid electrolyte that is stable, chemically inert and still a good conductor of ions between the electrodes. They are expensive to fabricate and are prone to cracking because of the brittleness of the electrolytes when they expand and contract during use.

Currently, a solid-state cell costs about eight times more to make than a liquid li-ion battery, experts say.

[setter]

OK I jumped the gun. Reading too many articles.

BY 2025 Ford etc predict SSB will match Lithiums price.
The deal is though SSB achieve faster charging, they are smaller and thye do not catch fire.

Ford is betting that solid-state batteries will cut EV costshttps://apnews.com › article
May 5, 2021 — Thai-Tang says the technology should give Ford the flexibility to either shrink battery sizes to make it less expensive to manufacture some ...

FutureBridge Predicts Solid-State Battery Cost Will Match ...https://insideevs.com › News › Battery Tech
Mar 2, 2021 — FutureBridge Predicts Solid-State Battery Cost Will Match Lithium-Ion By 2025. That’s just four years away and if it proves to be an ...

Ford Is Betting That Solid-State Batteries Will Cut EV Costshttps://www.usnews.com › News › Business News
May 5, 2021 — Being able to drive the cost-per-kilowatt-hour down will speed up the adoption of battery electric vehicles. ___. Q. What’s the advantage over ...

[setter]

They are working on it and finding solutions.

https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/21177144/electronic-design-those-big-bets-on-solidstate-batteriesthe-payoff-is-getting-closer