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Originally Posted by airwrench
BTW - I'm not an EV zealot. Just noting the responses from people that come up to me.
The batteries are a waste problem - although I'm eagerly anticipating using my old EV pack as a house solar backup solution. After that, I'm hoping there will be some type of recycling infrastructure in place - like for lead acid today. As far as manufacturing, they are just parts and cost probably not that different an amount of energy/resource to manufacture as the other parts on any vehicle. Might be almost more related to the weight of a car than it's composition.
My conclusions about the EV are that it's only good if you have other cars. We had 4 other cars when we bought it, now we have 2 others. What it is good for is taking out all those city/commuting/shopping miles. These tend to be hard on your car, as it also involves crowded parking lots, shopping cart dings, and sitting in traffic a lot. So really it's a car saver for your other cars.
I posted this discussion here because it seemed like this forum has pretty good thoughts from the various contributors.
Carl
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Welcome to the forum, Carl.
Honestly, you'll probably find that this place is just as politically polarized and outspoken as the people you meet in person who talk junk about anything but petro-fuelers. Alternately, there's also a cadre of alt-fuel, and hyper miler folks here that would love to argue in your favor, the numerous reasons why the use of fossil fuels will kill the whole universe.
I'm on the fence. I seriously considered electrifying a small British car, or a Volkswagen a while ago, but never did. My aim would NOT have been to go all activist, and be a vested big oil petro-hater. It would have been just because. Of course, gasoline and diesel power make sense to me currently because they've been around since the dinosaurs, and there are a lot of contingencies in place to support their use on public roads, chief among which are gas stations, and Pep-Boys parts stores.
