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Originally Posted by island911
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?
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there are 3 gas stations on the same corner of the street 4 blocks from my house.
what the actual **** kind of argument is "EV infrastructure is too expensive"
insane.
we are going to switch to EVs, and not because they are greener, and not because they are cheaper. we are going to switch to EVs because they are better cars. period. the model 3 performance pack is currently a better car than cars cost 2 and 3 times as much. and can do everything than can do with the AC on carrying 3 passengers. end of story. EVs already won. its over. if you cant see that, you are lost.