this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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fairytale fabricated by tech grifters [...] the energy density of petrol is still so much higher than a modern Lithium-ion battery, how can electric vehicles be viable competitors? Simple, they cheat. [...] we’ve been gaslit [...] extra weight makes them far more dangerous in a crash and it means that you’re wasting a lot of energy [...] doubling the weight does 16x the damage to the roads

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From skimming this article, there's nothing in it that is not already widely known and acknowledged by the so-called "tech grifters".

And many of these issues tend to get blown up quite a bit.

Reach is a matter of charging infrastructure. 400km seems like a good point to have an extended break anyway.

Weight is an issue with little way to mitigate, but it's not like there's a shortage of huge and heavy vehicles in general. So while this is inherent to EVs, it's far from exclusive.

Finally, the reason for switching to EVs it's not that they're inherently better than fossil fuel burning vehicles in every way. It's that they're better in the single very most important criterion: carbon emissions.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

extra weight makes them far more dangerous in a crash

If this would be really a concern to many people we should also rule out SUVs and the like. They weigh often over 2t. A Tesla Model 3 weighs 1.7-1.9t.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's astonishing the amount of people not understanding that EVs are not a mature technology at all and the goal of all of this is to make the market grow to improve research and industry.

Yes lithium pollutes but no, the mid term goal is not to keep making batteries out of it.

Same for batteries mass and volume.

Not saying that EVs are perfectly clean tho, don't get me wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Prices ARE coming down. You can get a 250mi / 400km fast charging Bolt EV for under $27.5 USD now. And you can get a $7.5k tax credit on top of that in the states. That’s pretty damn competitive, especially given that inflation raised the prices of vehicles.

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