There are a few things that I can't get over with electric vehicles:
1. I own a '57 Chevy, '64 Corvette and a '67 Chevelle. Would it be reasonable to expect a battery powered vehicle to be as operable with even half of the duration of the newest (1967) car?
2. If battery powered vehicles are so good, why must the government force us, the people, to purchase them? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax credit is for $2,500 to $7,500 per new EV purchased for use in the U.S. Yep, the money that is taken from you and I is funding (in part) the purchase of these vehicles. If you want one of these cars, pay for it yourself.
3. What new power plants are being created to provide the energy for these vehicles? There are no new nuclear, coal, etc, As far as I can tell, we are looking at more natural gas and solar PV (ref:
https://www.technology.org/2019/03/1...-and-solar-pv/).
Given the US uses a daily average of about 391.40 million gallons and there is approximately 35.3 KWH per gallon, we need to generate approximately 13,816.42 GWh (if my calculations are correct).
Given the entire landmass of the US receives about 10GWh from the Sun, I don't think solar is going to get there.
So, how are we going to fuel these vehicles?
4. How are we going to get the metals necessary for the batteries? Consider:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2...attery-future/
Are we willing to do more mining and open more mines?
So, where does that leave us? All riding the bus? Hard to hang a corner in that.
Sorry, not to be the grumpy guy nor be political. I just don't see this as a real long-term viable solution without the elimination of cars for the vast majority of the population.