Evolutionary dead end
Why are people using EVs?
If its to lower cost, as data has become available it is showing that on average it is more expensive to run an EV then an ICE vehicle in the US.
The current administration in the US did everything it could to drive up the cost of ICE and fuel to make make EVs more attractive and still had to provide subsidies to get people interested.
It is likely most US buyers are in EVs more for the subsidies then because they were lookign at an EV.
If its to save the planet then you are barking up the wrong tree.
In the US the same mad<people> that are jamming EVs down the collective throats of the driving public are also that same people that forced the US to generally abandon nuclear.
This means that generally all fo the electricity for charging EVs is generated by CNG or diesel.
Coal would be another option but the same group has been largely successful under the current administration in shutting down coal plants even if the coal they burn is very clean.
The same wags often like to point to alternative sources like solar or wind.
Even at the best of times these sources cannot provide enough electricity.
They also produce wast i nthe form of hard to dispose of turbine blades and solar panels that can require more energy to dispose of then they generate.
then there are the batteries that EVs and hybrids use which require rare earths.
Yes, they are not that rare and if you have access to one you can make the others but processing them creates an environmental nightmare.
Then there is the lousy, creaking electrical infrastructure in the US.
Electricity is expensive to store and the US has little to no capacity to do this.
Electricity is expensive to transport, the infrastructure imposes huge losses on generation.
Perhaps the US would be better off putting its research and financial capability behind something like hydrogen fuel cells?
They seem to be able to deliver everywhere electricity fails.
Though perhaps billionaires would not be able to increase their fortunes with tax supported subsidies.
That may be the real reason for EVs.
