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Originally Posted by Otter74
I don't even have to shout, because the EVs are whirring by silently 
gasoline fueling infrastructure did not spring up fully formed overnight, and neither is electrical charging infra. But it's happening. So is the work to allow grids to handle it. |
Sure, but from an engineering economy perspective EV's are not the efficient path.
Hybrids, OTOH, make sense. Sure they add a layer of costly complexity to an ICE auto, but that complexity has economic viability (overall efficiency increased, typically.) And hybrids can exist as Plug-ins - which have both the slow over-night charge option AND the gas & go option.
This model of Tesla type full EV's taking over the flexibility (range & quick charge) is a massively expensive, resource-taxing endeavor. And for what? Some imagined ideal? - an ideal that requires MASSIVE strip mining to create huge batteries? Which then take massive additional infrastructure spending to reconfigure energy distribution (that has a likely origin of burning hydrocarbons)