We are a minimum of 50 years from transitioning to EV’s.
The battery tech hasn’t yet been invented to handle 500 mile range, 25 year lifespan, and 500k mile longevity with a 10 minute charge time. Current batteries have to be replaced every 8-10 years at a cost of $10k-$15k and then recycled. They might go 300 miles in good conditions but usually far less if heat or AC is needed. There is a place for current EV’s in cities to reduce the dense population air pollution but pollution is still being made from non renewable and non nuclear power plants. Maybe some city people can afford the $60-$100k price tags for a nice Tesla.
Plus the infrastructure to charge all the EV’s must be Nuclear; not wind and solar. Then there’s the extra weight of the current batteries that cause the tires to wear out twice as fast so tire production and recycling would need to double. That’s just the beginning of the current environmental nightmare of current EV’s.
Dummy climate crazies only see one thing; the exhaust pipe on ICE vehicles. They don’t see the mining of the all the hard to get materials, the child labor, the environmental impact on mining areas and that’s just for the batteries. The solar farms displace all kinds of wildlife, light birds on fire in midair, and kill millions of birds with turbine blades in wind turbine farms which are also butt ugly, and the list goes on and on.
The dummies that only see the end product don’t actually see anything at all.
Bkmk.
All the above have been met with the exception of the 10 minute charge although a 20 minute charge can get you 200 Mile range.
" Current batteries have to be replaced every 8-10 years at a cost of $10k-$15k and then recycled. "
This is actual data using older battery technology:
“Then there’s the extra weight of the current batteries that cause the tires to wear out twice as fast so tire production and recycling would need to double”
Extra weight is not a big factor. Actual data indicates a heavy foot combined with greater torque on the driving wheels is the main factor.
Some Tesla owners are reporting over 40k on the ties.
OTOH, the rear tires on my last Mustang were replaced at 8k.
It isn’t that they don’t see it. It’s that they ignore and bury any negative aspects to their magical electric battery powered overpriced toys because they want to ram them down everyone’s throats. Why? My speculation is that it’s part of the push to reduce and eliminate as much freedom as possible from the peasants. Disarm the peasants so they can’t effectively resist tyranny. Limit the distance they can travel to ensure they can’t get away. Destroy their savings with taxes and inflation. Get them out of their suburban homes and cram them into Soviet style apartment blocks. Meanwhile the Wookie and other government types gorge on lobster and wagu beef.
All part of the “great reset”.
California is farther along than the rest of the nation
going EV. Even here it’s simply a no-go. There isn’t
a chance of powering those cars. We can’t even keep
the grid up as it is.
If they were serious about EVs and shortages of power, they
would build nuclear power plants in conjunction with
desalinization plants.
They could have everything ready in five years if they would
get off their asses.
EVs should stand or fall on their own public appeal. We
should not be trying to drive the price of gas to $50 a
gallon to push folks into buying something they can’t afford.
California’s government is terrible.
As for the rest of the nation, they are even farther behind
the EV curve than we are in California.
It doesn’t make sense what they are trying to do, unless
they want us to be a third world country in five years.
The niche for the plug in hybrid with much shorter range for urban or powering moms grocery getter for a few store trips and getting the kids from school make much more sense. home Low amp (10-16amps) for night charging and the hybrid engine for fall back might be useful for a lot longer than they envisioned.