Electric Vehicle Charging Insanity
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All valid points fren.
Battery tech needs to improve. But battery tech has been improving steadily through our lifetimes, right? It isn't going to just freeze in 2022.
You can't stop it just because you think it is a lefty thing. It is coming because of capitalism. Electric cars are just superior. I know it will take time to wrap your head around it, but if you can't, it won't matter.
They are going to win in the marketplace, and arguing on the internet won't make the slightest difference.
Superior with respect to which design factors?
Range in Hot and cold weather? Disaster readiness? How would EVs work in disaster scenarios such as hurricanes taking down grid for a time? Or traveling home in a blizzard?
What would act as strategic energy reserve for transportation if not oil? If grid were to be disabled for extended time such as a solar flare or EMP event, how would those cars be charged? I assume diesel gen-sets, then we would have to have backups gen-sets everywhere and logistics train to upkeep them.
Then there is problem of dealing with EVs in accidents and fires.
Somewhat case in point, I got a new lawnmower this weekend. I had looked at them a couple of years ago and saw maybe 2 electric battery powered mowers. This time, the electrics were 2/3 of their selection.
Oh no, I want electric cars. I always have. I hate posting for gas. But my main point of contention is by the time batteries get to where we need it for mass adoption, tech will have moved on. There will be competing technologies which goes to your point-tech CAN'T be stopped.
I see the market being splintered again when a new tech comes along something like hydrogen or who knows what
We already have a power grid which can deliver energy to every home and business in the US. It is not up to the task of powering all vehicles now but that can be fixed.
This is why electric cars are going to take over once the battery tech is improved.
To an electric car, it doesn't matter how you generate the energy. You don't need a whole new infrastructure and distribution center. My car is powered mostly by the Niagra River. Yours might be from the coal power plant. If I lived a little to the northwest, my car would be powered by nuclear fission.
To this point the power grid has been able to stand on its own.
I don't foresee that happening in the future.
You don't foresee what happening in the future?