2024-01-01
And it may be best if you make sure you aren't driving it when it dies ...
Zerohedge reports on a winter driving experience that the author probably wished he hadn't had, but it highlights the quite simple primary reasons why EVs as currently powered by battery simply aren't a very workable idea, unless you just want to use it as a local runabout. Even then, can you afford a new battery when the original battery dies?
There was much talk originally of swapping batteries in and out at service stations, which would solve some of these problems at a stroke and seems to be being adopted in China's EV market (although I don't remember just now where I read that). But western manufacturers never adopted that solution, which seems somewhat perverse, although the problems of swapping multiple physical battery sizes at service stations would quickly become impracticable should more than one size be involved.
Maybe EVs are a solution in search of a problem? It certainly seems that they are fast becoming a solution in search of a customer now that the market needs to expand beyond the too-rich-to-care crowd that have already bought them.
