I have huge problems with EV's and always have had so they are not for me
Here are just a few in no particular order ......
Cobolt mining is unethical seems to cause more environmental problems than the end product cures and that's without getting into the unsafe dark ages like conditions the miners have to endure and that is just one of the precious metals involved
Ev's are less green than their modern petrol or diesel powered counterparts, use as much of the limited natural resources to build as any other car (if not more) and are much harder and expensive to recycle
The infrastructure for charging still isn't there for the amount of EV's that are on the road today never mind those that will be sold in the coming years and sales are overtaking the updating of that infrastructure by a long chalk, government and energy companies promises have come to nothing on this so far and I cant see matters improving in my lifetime
Electric cars are stupidly expensive and the batteries don't last so that's more expense in a few years time + recycling the bloody things is expansive and tends to be done in third world countries where they cant afford to care about the environmental impact of what they are doing
Electricity still has to be produced and this process is still not an environmentally sound process even with the improvements made in recent years ..... the more ev's on the road the more electricity we need and the less environmentally sound the whole sorry process becomes
Electricity prices are set to rise even more due to many factors, money spent on poor EV infrastructure would be better spent on keeping the prices down for everyone and benefiting the whole country rather than the few who have 100k to blow on an unsound green principle
Ever seen a normal car battery burn? trust me you dont want to be within 100yds of that or within a mile of the very toxic smoke, now imagine a bloody great tray full of high capacity ones in an EV going up, the first accident involving an EV that catches fire is really going to open peoples eyes to the dangers of these things
lastly to finish my rant
Hydrogen fuel cells are quick and reasonably easy to make with very few natural resources and almost no precious metals that have to be strip mined at great finanical and environmental cost they are also green safe and stable, the technology to do it has been around for years now so why are we not doing it ? ............... the answer is simple there is not huge profit for big business or governments (through taxes) which smacks very much of Nikola Tesla trying to give everyone free electricity and being shut down and brings us full circle
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