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Originally Posted by Otter74
A lot of y'all sound like old men sitting on your porches yelling at passers-by about EVs. They're happening whether you like it or not, and they're cleaner than IC engine transportation whether you like it or not. You talk about upstream pollution for EVs as if there wasn't also upstream pollution for gasoline propulsion.
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Sure sure... and you sound like a guy on the street corner shouting
the EV is near!
Seriously though, while both EV and ICE cars have upstream pollution, EV's have much more. But that is not the beef of this topic...
EV's rely on high energy efficiency to offset their horrible batteries. ICE cars have excellent energy density but (relative) crap conversion/thermal efficiency - but that has been changing, and changing much faster than batteries have gotten better.
And then there is infrastructure. The "rapid" charging stations are ridiculously expensive, especially considering how slowly they 'pump' the electrical energy. Sure, gas stations are not cheap, but they have massive throughput from a single pump. - how many pumps are at your local Costco? Are they busy? How many rapid chargers would be needed to compete with that energy throughput? Can the grid handle that?