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| Sure EV's are nice in town where your round trip commute is 50 miles or less. That gives you plenty of battery margin as they "wear out" over several years. They drive nice and are quick. FYI, it's been this way for 40 years!!!! Electric motors are packaged better but it's not new and the reason we don't all drive electric vehicles is the same now as then. Batteries. We forget how much energy is stored in a small amount of gasoline or diesel. The equivalent battery set up is 1000lbs.
The problem is gov't (or business) doesn't like to support behind the scenes efforts. They want something they can sell tomorrow - it's all about quarterly earnings and political points and screw the long term. In fact the only long term action for business is paying off politicians. I digress. Battery technology is just not the big deal it should be because most folks don't understand batteries, electric motors or their key fob. Seems like we'd all rather play the emperor's new clothes until comes crashing down. So, if we really had a smart university research system and clever bureaucrats and politicians directing them, they would be doing serious battery development long before subsidizing EV's and improving electrical generation (since ending fossil fuels was the goal right?). It would have been smart to do before paying for wind and solar farms that will never pay for themselves with out gov't intervention.
This is how I see it. Lemmings will line up to get the latest EV and the rest of us will eventually buy the EV that is better suited to the market. Gasoline and ethanol use will decrease and we will have plenty of cheap corn to export or feed or lots of gov't checks (who knows?). At some point if there isn't a break thru on batteries, there will be some significant issues as battery packs start to fail and replacement costs are just too high. One guy suggested a new cash for clunkers deal would keep people buying $13K battery packs but at some point we run out of other people's money.
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EV vehicles vs combustion engines vehicles?
