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It takes time to develop new energy sources for the public. No one has a gas pump at home so they can leave every day with a full tank. Maybe Jay Leno does. It is not impossible to install ev chargers in many parking spots though, free of oil tanks and all the contamination oil brings to a locality. It's not impossible to have central charging stations like gas stations, and they are much cleaner.
You can fill up on the way home (I do, 1/4 mile from the house), then start with a full tank the next day. I agree that EVs are likely the way of the future, but there's a LOT of hurdles (battery fires, power/charging infrastructure, limited battery life, right-to-repair/parts) to fix first. Plenty of time to squeeze the rest out of the ICE vehicles!
 
I agree that EVs are likely the way of the future, but there's a LOT of hurdles (battery fires, power/charging infrastructure, limited battery life, right-to-repair/parts) to fix first. Plenty of time to squeeze the rest out of the ICE vehicles!
Indeed. Although a strange thought just hit me: what if the next big development comes along, battery prices drop, and now an EV is half the price of what we think an ICE would normally go for? We all disparage the throw-away society we live in, but let's face it, economically it kinda makes sense, when replacing is cheaper than repairing that is what we do. For a while it made sense with cordless tools, each generation was truly better. What if the warranty on an EV was 150k and cheaper to boot? Drive to when it has a major issue (which isn't necessarily at the 150k warranty), then lather rinse repeat?

[I don't see batteries getting cheaper any time soon, lots of hot air and little growth, but just musing over what could be. People no longer take apart sparkplugs to clean them yet that is where they started from. An EV should have less parts and more code, right? A semi-mechanical version of a cellphone or a computer.]

On the flip side, all the sensors for all the nannies that are going into cars might do what they can to keep ratcheting up prices. Most of the parts go down in price with time, but the rate of new systems being added seems to be outpacing that... so this is probably utopic thinking at best, and delusion at worst.
 
You can fill up on the way home (I do, 1/4 mile from the house), then start with a full tank the next day. I agree that EVs are likely the way of the future, but there's a LOT of hurdles (battery fires, power/charging infrastructure, limited battery life, right-to-repair/parts) to fix first. Plenty of time to squeeze the rest out of the ICE vehicles!
My comment was more we don't have gas pumps at home, and with more build out of chargers, it will be the same with an EV. So the look at the apartment homes what will they do comments will be laid to rest. Even now a person can charge their EV somewhere and then go back to their home and park the car where there is no charging. It's not yet perfected, but it can be.
 
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