Electric cars fail on every front. This has been known for years.
- They don't go as far on a charge as gas cars go on a tank of gas.
- They take much longer to charge than it takes to fill your gas tank.
- They don't perform well in cold weather.
- Their range is more than cut in half when they tow anything behind them.
- The batteries begin degrading the day you buy them, and keep getting worse over time.
- The batteries fail after two or three years.
- It costs $30,000 to replace a car battery pack ... usually more than the value of the used car itself.
- The battery packs are toxic to manufacture and create a great deal of deadly poisonous pollution.
- The battery packs are equally toxic to dispose of when they are worn out.
- Electric cars cost more than gas cars to buy, and will always cost more.
- Electric cars cost more to run than gas cars and will always cost more.
- There are not enough charging stations, leading to waits of hours to get a charge.
- The electrical grid cannot support a large number of electric cars.
Every single aspect of electric cars makes less rational sense than gasoline driven cars.
Electric cars fail on every front. This has been known for years.
* They don't go as far on a charge as gas cars go on a tank of gas.
* They take much longer to charge than it takes to fill your gas tank.
* They don't perform well in cold weather.
* Their range is more than cut in half when they tow anything behind them.
* The batteries begin degrading the day you buy them, and keep getting worse over time.
* The batteries fail after two or three years.
* It costs $30,000 to replace a car battery pack ... usually more than the value of the used car itself.
* The battery packs are toxic to manufacture and create a great deal of deadly poisonous pollution.
* The battery packs are equally toxic to dispose of when they are worn out.
* Electric cars cost more than gas cars to buy, and will always cost more.
* Electric cars cost more to run than gas cars and will always cost more.
* There are not enough charging stations, leading to waits of hours to get a charge.
* The electrical grid cannot support a large number of electric cars.
Every single aspect of electric cars makes less rational sense than gasoline driven cars.
Something interesting about a lead acid battery is almost every part of it is easily recoverable, and mostly reusable.
Lead plates? Yep. Sulfuric Acid? Yep. Plastic housing? Maybe, but plenty of refurb housings out there.
It's so easy to re-use the battery in your ICE car that people do it on a dirt floor in third-world countries.
Lithium-Ion? Not so much. There's a lot more chemistry going on in one of those.
Something interesting about a lead acid battery is almost every part of it is easily recoverable, and mostly reusable.
Lead plates? Yep.
Sulfuric Acid? Yep.
Plastic housing? Maybe, but plenty of refurb housings out there.
It's so easy to re-use the battery in your ICE car that people do it on a dirt floor in third-world countries.
Lithium-Ion? Not so much. There's a lot more chemistry going on in one of those.
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