On topic;
[member=61254]mino[/member] - Agreed. You forgot to mention the 'elephant in the room' though - the fact that 'Hallelujah !! Freedom from being tethered by cords !!!' is the rallying cry of the cordless brigade as they make their cordless saw cuts - whilst being tethered to their extractor by the equivalent of a 3.5m long/36mm-diameter firehose-sized 'cord' instead.
But only tentatively on topic;
Cheese said:
Maybe they're adverse to EV vehicles
Yup.
1 - Horrific initial purchase cost.
2 - Horrific depreciation.
3 - Horrific insurance, repair and maintenance cost.
4 - Horrific tyre wear.
5 - Proven unreliability compared with ICE vehicles. Endless software glitches and more besides - the simplest of which can often completely disable the vehicle.
6 - Pathetic charging infrastructure.
7 - No likelihood of an improvement to #6 as a basic 4-bay charging station costs $750,000 and no investors are buying as there's no return on such a huge investment.
8 - A power source (battery) which costs $50-60,000 to replace when it wears out. As it inevitably will. How many people reading this have 5-year-old iPhones with 100% functional batteries?
9 - They don't work when it gets cold.
10 - You're screwed if you ever want to tow anything. Your battery range just halved.
11 - If you do, you'll need to unhitch your trailer and park it somewhere safe so you can get into a charging bay.
12 - All those bays will be full because there aren't enough of them. You'll need to wait around until one becomes free.
13 - By the time you've done that, your 150-mile journey will have taken 4 hours. Likely more.
14 - Now multiply that by the mileage you'd like to do for that special weekend away with your family. Say 300 miles each way in an ICE car - there and back on a tank. If your car has a small tank - 3-minute gas station pump and you're good to go. In an EV - multiple charging stops (if you can find chargers), and a 20-30% minimum increase in your journey time. Roadside burger stops whilst hanging around gets real old, real quick.
15 - Live in Alaska? Or the Appalachians? Or Montana? Or Colorado? Or New Mexico? Or anywhere else featuring massive, wide-open spaces with hundreds of miles between towns? Once again - you're screwed. I'm a Brit living in a country smaller than just one of your states and my knowledge of the geography of your wonderful country is limited (hence the wild 'Big Country' guesses above), but even here - a country hyped with so-called 'EV awareness', we only have around 5% of the necessary infrastructure to support an 'All EV by 2030' Government mandate. An entire country less than the size of Texas. 5% infrastructure. help you guys.
16 - What about trucks? And railroad locomotives? And airplanes? And bulldozers? And farm tractors? And cranes? And ships? And all the other zillion huge diesel, gas and aviation-fuel-powered machines which enable us to live the lives we live?
#17 -#132 = I'll let you do some basic research and figure it out. But I just specifically wanted to mention;
22 - What about the huge number of catastrophic Li-Ion EV fires? The ones the fire departments can't put out because of stratospheric burn temperatures and the likelihood of re-ignition - sometimes days later? And the full HAZMAT teams now needed at every EV fire because the runoff fire-department extinguishing water is now critically contaminated with toxic chemicals?
There's a reason why auto manufacturers have thousands of unsold EV's on their dealer lots, there's a reason why many of them have either drastically reduced (or totally halted) production altogether. There's a reason why early corporate adopters like Hertz are currently offloading 20,000 EV's because they're losing money on every rental. Buyers don't want them because they're unaffordable to the Ordinary Joe, and they're totally impractical apart from being a rich person's crazy-expensive golf cart to go to the mall and back in - all whilst feeling great about how you're saving the planet. Spoiler alert = you're not. Your battery raw materials have involved hundreds of thousands of tons of minerals being mined and processed, and the electricity you've used to charge it has probably come from somewhere like a coal-fired power station which belches out more toxic sludge every minute than a thousand Kenworth diesel trucks, or a nuclear plant producing waste which takes 500 years to become non-radioactive.
I don't want to come across as some kind of anti-EV evangelist and I therefore won't go into the specifics of how I know all this ........ but it's sufficient to say that as an environmentally-aware citizen of the world - I believed the glossy marketing BS, I believed I was truly doing a good thing, and I was foolishly sucked into the false hype. So I reached deep, deep into my pocket, and I tried it. An EV version of the same van I'd happily driven for the past 9 years. 18 months in - I've had to buy a new diesel van
as well to earn a living, I still haven't been able to sell the immaculate, as-new EV version - not even for half of its initial purchase cost. Inside less than years, I'm more than $70,000 in the hole.
No thanks.
Kevin
