Quote Originally Posted by mrdude View Post
Personally I will never buy an EV, I know too much about batteries and how they work.

1: Batteries have liquid in them, I live in a cold country in the winter and the liquid can freeze/get very cold, wreck the batteries more quickly than in a hot country.
2: Batteries when hot have vents in them and the liquid can turn to a gas and vent, then the battery loses some capacity.
3: Battery prices to change out cost more than a second hand petrol car. Have a very limited lifespan, and are bad for the environment.
4: Price of electricity is more costly now and is dearer to run than gasoline.
5: Charing times, I don't want to spend hours waiting to recharge a battery (even if I could find a charging point that works).
6: Stress of the battery running out before I finish a journey, for example say I need to drive 100+ miles, I don't want the added stress of trying to find a charging point and then need to hang around in the middle of the night for 2 hours or so until I can have enough charge to drive home.
7: Stuck in the snow - the roads where I live are crap in the snow, if you get stuck on the motorway in a traffic jam, and it's snowing - your battery is going to run out before you ever make it to a charing point (which will most likely have a long queue with other EV's waiting to recharge).
8: If you want a charge point in your house - you need offroad parking and be able to park within a few feet of your house - or you are running a long cable (which can be easily stolen), people trip up on and sue you etc.

Human cost - have you seen kids in Africe working in cobalt and lithium mines?
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Nope, electric cars are not for me, and virtue signalers such as celebs using their private jets, Humvees, limo's, large houses with heated swimming pools and Air conditioning systems, 60"+ TV's, etc - are not in any position to lecture me on how much carbon dioxide I produce. They most likely create more in a year than I have used in my entire life. As for their cabon neutral virtue signaling - that's all it is.
Were going off-topic, but electric is not the future for cars, it's just a cash cow.

Hydrogen was looking like it would be the future, but maybe now it will just be synthetic fuels if they can get the production costs down.

As for EV's they can not work, it's impossible not enough infrastructure and even if there was, you can't have millions of cars charging, cables running down streets for people to trip over, not everyone can park outside there own house (sometimes not even in the same street) etc etc, the only possible way it could work imo is if every road was dug up and wireless chargers were layed into the road, again never going to happen in a billion years (they can't even fix pot holes).