Charging at home is difficult compared to driving to a gas station?
This is all moot. Sodium ion and lfp and newer battery techs will increase range and drop the initial purchase price of EVs under what an ICE can compete with
Some snap in time clickbait article won't change the technological tsunami. Even if the US drags it's feet, the rest of the world will eagerly adopt them. EVs promise energy independent and cheap transport combined with wind / solar.
Every automaker knows this to differing levels of organizational denial, but they all feel it coming.
You realize this isn’t the first EV hype cycle yes? They’ve been tried before and as the article states the early adopter market is saturated worldwide.
There are some very real problems that can’t be solved by battery tech, and only by removing the battery and switching to an alternative fuel source.
The only reason EVs are succeeding now given all their shortcomings is because we’re being forced into them. Remove that force and I don’t see EVs seeing mass adoption.
Oh there were 400 mile cars cheaper than ice cars before?
Look Tesla can already build EVs at price parity with ices, they are currently sitting here n their profit margin. This isn't a hype cycle, Chinese EV makers and battery suppliers have 200+ wh/kg lfp and 150 wh/kg sodium ion in mass production scaling.
This isn't a hype cycle, there are entire car companies in mass production with equal to ice costs now, and the cheaper than ice can ever be is in production scaling.
Yes it won't be over night, but if you are doing production planning, financing, stock prediction and other 5-10 year planning, the writing now on the wall.
This is without solid state and sulfur techs. Im only talking about the CATL LFP and sodium ion techs. Those alone will beat ices on cost at initial purchase, to say nothing of cheaper permile "fuel" and maintenance costs.
And keep me n me and wind / solar is STILL dropping in cost, under what any old school power generation method has been. EV costs will only drop.
> Oh there were 400 mile cars cheaper than ice cars before?
Neither gas nor electric cars got that kind of range when they first launched in the early 1900s. But as is true today, gasoline engines got about 20% more range than the electric and were easy to fill.
> This isn't a hype cycle, there are entire car companies in mass production with equal to ice costs now, and the cheaper than ice can ever be is in production scaling.
As there was before. Entire car companies went out of business because they chose to make electric cars instead of gas.
> Very real problems
I’ll name a few:
Battery decreases range with ambient temperature changes
Cannot refuel outside of a charging station
Battery degrades with every charge
Fire hazard having that much energy in a battery that it’s not an if it will fail but a when
This is all moot. Sodium ion and lfp and newer battery techs will increase range and drop the initial purchase price of EVs under what an ICE can compete with
Some snap in time clickbait article won't change the technological tsunami. Even if the US drags it's feet, the rest of the world will eagerly adopt them. EVs promise energy independent and cheap transport combined with wind / solar.
Every automaker knows this to differing levels of organizational denial, but they all feel it coming.