tommystrat wrote:
Depreciation, limited range, extremely high maintenance costs, lithium production in the hands of unfriendly nations (China) and the complete inadequacy of the existing electrical grid to service a massive influx of EVs will serve to make EVs untenable on a large scale.
And what happens when you are on a road trip and get stranded in the middle of nowhere. Once those batteries run down how in the world are you going to get them recharged when you can't get to a recharging station? Just a few of the reasons that EVs are only being manufactured to pander to the woke in our society, who say that we're going down in a flaming, catastrophic climate crisis, unless we have electric vehicles. Never seeing the forest for the trees.
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The scarcity of lithium and its explosive nature are two big drawbacks. A company in Sweden claims to have developed a sodium battery.