Battery Powered Electric Vehicles are an enigma. Why do they exist right now?
Telsa (the company) built a car that was straight out of a book written in the late 70s. Popular Mechanics and Popular Science described similar things too. So why now?
(if you didn't know you could have had your car converted to an EV for the last 40 years.)
And that "automatic driving" feature. Why is it allowed out on the road? These things were programmed to ignore bicycles, because they had too many possible paths, and so the computer program would freak out. (not something you can have happen in a real time system. Yes, it ignores bicycles. You know that girl that was run down while walking her bicycle across the road? The card didn't even brake. This is why that happened.
Why are these killing machines on the road?
There isn't enough power stations providing enough power. Just last summer California was broadcasting to not charge your EVs. While also saying that everyone should buy an EV by 2030. Electric battery performance goes down the drain in cold climates. And so we experienced many Tesla's dying in the great frozen north, in places like Chicago. No electricity in the south, no charging in the north.
Why are EVs being pushed when we obviously do not have a structure for them yet.
The Tesla Roadster was a good design…
Battery powered Electric Vehicles are only good in a couple tiny markets. Where you only have a tiny bit to drive (like retired folks needing to go the store) and you live in a warm climate, or you are wealthy and can have a sports car that you can only take out when the climate is good.
Everyone else has no business owning an EV. They are causing too much pollution for no gain.
90% of people who have bought a battery powered EV are unhappy with their choice, and will be going back to a car with an ICE engine when they can afford it.
The range on EVs AND the length of time to recharge one is a destroyer of hopes and dreams. It is not the range, because any distance can be enough for some, and it is not the recharge time, because there are many who have all day to wait around. But if you are ever pushing the range, or the time, you will find yourself in a frustrating, and life shortening conundrum of worrying if you are going to make it.
And the fork in the back for the EVs is the resale value. An almost brand new Tesla loses all of its resale value if the battery breaks. And it is almost guaranteed to break in about 5 years.
Combustion engines have nothing on a battery powered EV
LiIon batteries love to spontaneously combust. LiIon batteries are continuously, from the moment they are constructed, breaking down. And the way they break down, increases future breaking down. And this can lead to a runaway condition where the battery violently discharges itself.
Small LiIon batteries will usually break completely before they get hot enough to combust.
But, if you are cheap, and you don't want to wire together all those little batteries, you can make larger ones… or make them more cheaply without as many layers to avoid runaway breakdowns… which are almost guaranteed to result in spontaneous combustion.
If you watch ThemTube videos from channels like China Uncensored, you can see the near daily report of cars, buses, bicycles bursting into flames.
LiIon batteries are already very bad for the environment. The toxicity of mining the minerals for these batteries is so bad that it can only be done in 3rd world countries. Often with child labor. That is bad enough so that we should ban LiIon powered EVs because they are polluting too much (before they hit the showroom) however, they are worse when they burst into flames and burn, even underwater, until all the battery is consumed. The chance of these toxic fumes should ban EVs from being made.
Not at all environmentally friendly!
What about free energy?
Surely we will have electric vehicles if we just invent a free-energy device?
This is a weird question, with a weirder answer. Because, inventions rarely come singly. And this set of inventions will probably have a small source of continuous power AND some anti-gravity device.
Soooo, although some people will convert their old gas cars into run-forever electric vehicles (sorry Tesla owners, Tesla has all the electronics lock everything down if mess with any part of the vehicle, especially the battery) however, most engineers and tinkerers will put the two together and we will have flying cars.
Maybe their will be some applications of wheeled vehicles that will endure, but i really can't think of any.
So, it will be a short time when free-energy powered, EVs exist. If that is what you want to play with, get on it.
I wish i really knew why battery powered EVs are being pushed so hard. Are the politicians seeing a way of getting kudos for saving the environment? (please tell me that they aren't this stupid)
Are the politicians being controlled from some source that want EVs? Being able to control who can drive by controlling who can charge. And if that isn't enough, there are remote disable switches built into all EVs (and most modern vehicles). And the ultimate. If you have a self driving car, it can drive you "safely" to the nearest police station so you can be arrested for whatever fee you forgot to pay.
Whatever the reason, the people behind this have spent a lot of effort to befuddle neo-liberals. Who now believe that electric cars will save the world, when anyone who has looked into it, knows that each electric car produces more pollution before it even drives one mile, than a similar ICE vehicle. Where is Greta to tell those insidious politicians, "How Dare You!"
Anyway, the future looks bright, however EVs are not really going to be a part of it.