My argument incorporates the total cost of electic cars against the "petroleum" cars.
I agree if we could have a zero pollution car that costs nothing to produce that could be 100% recycled and cheap enough, I and many others would buy it.
But fact is, if every car today was full of 300kgs of batteries that needed to be replaced every 4 or 5 years, can you imagine the pollution we would have? We simply can't recycle or dismantle without waste.
We could drive E cars that put out HUGE horsepower. We could bulk up the batteries to give us 8 hours of use. But how much energy and pollutants does it cost to produce the batteries in the first place. The energy to charge the batteries to get huge HP?
So whilst driving an E car may seem like the green thing to do it may not be if you look at the end to end picture.
The best I can think of is an electric car with a Nuclear power source. No batteries to make or get rid of. Should provide lots of power and the life time charge would be years.
Just don't crash. Else we may have to avoid that intersection for a few decades.
