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Electric cars...

Would you buy an electric car?

  • No thank you

  • Sign me up!

  • If I must

  • I don't drive, thus I really don't care anyway

  • I am interested, but until there is more reliable technology for long highway trips


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Use case matters a lot, and like you said, for certain commutes, I think you can change out for an EV and not suffer any drawbacks. However, if we're talking cross-country traveling, that is where you find issues.
I have done plenty of that cross-country travel with my EVs. I use the Tesla Supercharging network, so those are about every 40-60 miles, or so. You do have to plan your routes, and there are still places in the US where there isn't high-speed charging readily available, but those are rare cases, because my wife and I do enjoy driving "off-the-beaten-path" and have quite a bit of experience with this. Again, out on the road, you will have to make stops to eat, use a restroom, etc. and this is when you charge. Time management. It's rarely a situation where you are sitting in your car for 30 minutes, doddling around waiting while it fills with electrons. Tesla does an exceptional job at maintaining their chargers, nearly 99% up time, as opposed to other networks which may be as low as 60% and can create quite a bit of anger, frustration, and anxiety. Come to find out, sometimes it's not about the car, but the charging network. A lot of non-Tesla owners have had bad experiences with non-Tesla chargers, and of course, the media picks up on the story and generalizes with "all EVs" which is completely wrong. Just this past week, Tesla and GM now have a contract, as with other major auto makers, to allow these non-Tesla vehicles to use their charging stations. Furthermore, most, if not all, auto makers will be switching to the North American Charging Standard (NACS) aka Tesla charging ports in future models. The infrastructure is coming along nicely. https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
 
That story I linked above is a couple of years old now. The electric trucks are working out pretty good for all the inner city short run work between shipping and rail terminals and warehouses, and to supermarkets and other large retailers, etc. In densely built up areas like that they only haul one trailer and they can do several runs before going back to base for a fresh battery.
Not just for short runs anymore.
 
One thing for sure living in Nevada, that the lithium mining and battery industries here are like a "dog with a bone". That they're aggressively moving ahead with no apparent alternatives.

The Great Recession pretty much savaged the dominance of the gambling and hospitality industries here, and now our state economy seems poised to seek revenue in a very different, but specific direction towards electrically-powered vehicles, for better or worse.

They're even in the process of building an alternate freeway path designed to lessen traffic given so many commuters going to and from the Panasonic (Tesla) battery factory outside of the metropolitan Reno/Sparks area eastward on Interstate 80.
 
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One thing for sure living in Nevada, that the lithium mining and battery industries here are like a "dog with a bone". That they're aggressively moving ahead with no apparent alternatives.

The Great Recession pretty much savaged the dominance of the gambling and hospitality industries here, and now our state economy seems poised to seek revenue in a very different, but specific direction towards electrically-powered vehicles, for better or worse.

They're even in the process of building an alternate freeway path designed to lessen traffic given so many commuters going to and from the Panasonic (Tesla) battery factory outside of the metropolitan Reno/Sparks area eastward on Interstate 80.
Reminiscent of the "oil boom" back in the day. Not only are EVs using vast amounts of materials, but the utility-level energy sector is just ramping up, as well.
 

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