RE: Warnings from the past. Be careful how you think about Electric Vehicles (EVs).

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For me the issue is simpler, at least for the moment. Electric cars are still too expensive. If you are looking to buy a luxury car then something like a Tesla will fit right into your budget. If you are looking for a small, inexpensive car, electric just can't (or isn't) competing yet on price. At least in the U.S. I hear there are some cheap electric cars in China.



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Cost can be in more than money. If it is actually more destructive to the environment to produce that removes the "Saving the planet" advantage. If it cannot travel as far and is very inconvenient to charge? That removes another. If it can't actually haul loads far at all for vehicles you purchased for that purpose then that is another failure.

From what I can see all of these problems are tied to the battery tech. It is also not remotely renewable. We have renewables we can use in some internal combustion engines, but the things required by these batteries are far from renewable.

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Still, I can't buy something I can't afford.

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Yep. If the price of electricity keeps going up too due to their policies then if you can buy one you still might not be able to afford to drive it. 😜

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I don't see EVs truly viable until we have a power source that doesn't require a battery. Perhaps if they came up with batteries made from renewables that didn't destroy the surface of the planet to extract them it might be viable. It depends upon how much energy and material is required to produce them. If it is more than just going with internal combustion engine then that is what we call a CON.

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I guess it depends on where battery technology goes. I don't think we are necessarily stuck with Lithium forever. Solid state batteries seem to be on the horizon which are potentially better in a number of ways and use different materials. I'm not sure of the environmental impact though. But yes, trying to force everyone to a new technology that really isn't ready is bound to have bad results. That's happening across the board with supposed "green" energy.

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That's happening across the board with supposed "green" energy.

Yep. That's the biggest problem as far as I am concerned with "green".

It isn't really green.

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