Battery tech has to improve over 10 fold to just get on a level pegging.
This is not tech that is 'just around the corner'
Li Ion is just about at it limit & makes the electric car a toy for the rich, not a tool to be used by the masses.
It is SO inconvenient that the greenies are OK with putting copious amount fo CO2 into the air just to ensure that charge points are available. Defeats the reason why they embarked on this.
Think about all the extra cabling, plastics consumed (ie oil to produce), insulated wires, concrete , bitumen, digging trenches the list goes on..............all for nought as in 30 or 40 years it will be obsolete & a new shiny take its place.....but todays cars with the Li are not the answer...all they do is put 4 years of Co2 into the air (more than an ice car) & front end load the Co2 production.
Electric cars DO NOT make the Air cleaner.
Imagine somehow every car on the planet was replaced with electric tomorrow.....how much Co2 was released in the mining, production, delivery of the co2...........Co2 release will accelerate not reverse with the manufacturing process.
We need to do more with Less
Electric cars consume far more raw material than the ice equivalent & in doing do put MORE Co2 into the air than the ice equivalent ....just to get to the showroom floor...........They DO NOT remove that co2 from the atmosphere, just move the entry point where Co2 enters the system
It has never been about the electric car (find a post where I have bagged the car).
It is about the fuel source & mankinds lack of tech to replace current ice with a better mouse trap.
