(July 10, 2024 at 10:28 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: .and the point isn't to get off oil for getting off oils own sake..but so that things might be better.
Someone once said
"The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil."
Battery technology has been improving, but it's unlikely to ever overcome the energy density of petrol, so the weight issue will plague EVs for a long long time... perhaps being solved when motor efficiency improves too.
People have the issue of range anxiety, mostly due to the perceived lack of public charging points and the long time it takes to charge batteries, when compared with the ubiquitous petrol stations and the 2 minutes it takes to fill up a tank. Fix these two issues and EV adoption will skyrocket.
There are those who enjoy the feeling of driving an ICE car, but for most of us who just want to get from point A to B they're just clucky in comparison with EVs. gearbox? clutch? lubricant? radiator?
