Politicians and "Green" Energy proponents have been pushing electric vehicles very hard.
I mean, really hard. Subsidies, advert campaigns, outlawing ICE by 2030.
If anyone looked into the actual numbers from building and using battery powered electric vehicles with an honest eye, they would be outlawed until massive improvements were made. But no, it has been all steam ahead! We have to force these down people's throats!
These politicians and "Green" Energy proponents seem to have some bigger agenda…
However, the real numbers have caught up to auto makers.
Many auto makers have said that they are getting out of the electric vehicle space.
Battery powered electric vehicles do not save the planet
It creates more pollution to mine the materials to build the electric battery than an ICE creates in its entire life. Just that should have stopped battery powered electric car production, except for like the Tesla Roadster, which should have cost $200k-$500k each to pay for pollution clean up.
But no. We just outsource all of our pollution to third world countries where children mine the materials needed by hand. This should have stopped production, or demanded that mining be done better, and the price passed along to EV buyers. This didn't happen.
EVs are not that much more efficient than an ICE. All we are doing is producing the pollution at the electric plant instead of out the tailpipe. The EV only excels where there is stop and go traffic, and average speeds are below 30 mph. (like a grocery getter, in the city) Else, at pure highway driving at high speeds, they are almost the same efficiency. AND the EV weighs an extra thousand pounds because of the battery. So, its efficiency, is eaten by extra weight.
You have all of these facts, and EV proponents are still, "we have to save the world by driving EVs"
The batteries are expensive
Anyone who has had to replace an EV battery knows how expensive they are. Basically, you can buy a new used EV for the price of battery replacement. (The old car is an expensive paper weight.) The battery's price is reduced by incentives and kickbacks when the car is first sold. But, without those, the battery costs more than the car.
If we factually priced EVs, they would be hundreds of thousands more than their ICE counterparts.
So, given this, and that the batteries should cost even more (to pay for cleanup of toxic waste created while building the batteries) why has their been pushes for EVs? Why has their been so much subsidies? Why do we allow the destruction of third world nations for this boondoggle?
EV crashes are hazardous
It has been kept under wraps, but more and more it is coming out.
Li-Ion batteries are dangerous and hazardous. Large collections of these batteries (like in an EV or hybrid) are in danger of thermal runaway. Even in smaller applications like electric bicycles, fire hazards are great.
And these fires are not able to be put out. They will continue underwater. They produce toxic fumes. They burn so hot they destroy concrete (taking out a parking garage in one instance).
And electrocution is not a small concern.
One EV fire will set off other EVs which are near. More heat means more chance of thermal runaway.
And these batteries go from a smell of "something's smoking" to total car inferno in a matter of seconds. You do not have time to pull to the side of the road and get out and see what is happening.
So, all of these factual numbers/data is coming out about EVs.
Tie that with most people not being able to afford the extra price of an EV, and many auto makers are getting out of the EV manufacturing business.
They were losing too much money. And there appeared on the horizon, too much legal liability.
In my opinion the large auto manufacturers should never have gotten into EV manufacturing. It was only ever viable as a niche. (except with tons of govern-cement money) And the big auto makers are saying it is too expensive, and they aren't selling enough.
We never had the electrical infrastructure to support charging EVs. (and running the AC or heat)
The entire movement has been a scam. A scam that was really pushed hard, at all levels.
This whole thing stinks.