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Originally Posted by bojan
Is there an electric car in my future?
Of course there is!
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If only I could afford one of those. But it'd be the only realistic option for me. Self driving cars would be better but again cost... EV are here to stay as a cash cow for a long time. Its part of consumerism addiction that revolves around lithium battery technology and why you can't pop a couple of AAs into your camera or phone or pretty much anything these days. Lithium from what I recall forms unstable compounds and the scare of public away from nickel, especially nickel cadmium based batteries poisoning etc towards lithium based tech which only overheats and sometimes explodes but performs well even in gadgets that dont require high performance energy. Plus they don't explain how once a battery "cell" is assembled the chemical reaction of lithium starts and is constant. Whether the battery is used or sitting on a shelf its life of about 5yrs is ticking away. So products are designed for a 5yr life to suit and training everyone to accept throwing away and buying the latest periodically. EV cars are no different. The batteries are the big profit earners for all industries. They make more from the consumer by forcing you to return an item for them to replace the batteries since lithium based batteries dont allow for easy identification of usage and lifespan the way nickel tech can. a simple (profitable) battery tester just shows lithium as strong charge or dead, so little drop off etc to simply test. So there is no profit in having a standard "car size" battery that you swap at the service station. You could be getting a battery with 5min of life on it. Plus it means THEY are paying for charging costs/time and disposal of dead batteries etc and maintaining a supply of batteries in the system on hand to cope with a certain number of cars per hour. Abig tank of fuel underground is still the best option. When they have a better tech that can be profitted from more then we'll get it. Don't forget nuclear based battery tech has been around for ages thanks to space exploration but the words "nuclear" and "radiactive" are such brainwashed scare tactics still they havent been able to find a way to sell it as green and cuddly to the dumb public yet. Its possible piezo (pressure to energy) and thermal (heat to energy) and kinetic (movement to energy) has or will be miniaturised enough to produce bulk layers to use in seat upholstery and clothing to turn us into batteries to power our gadgets. what makes you think any of this has anything to do with anything besides profits? doing whats best for the planet? LOL. Doing right by the tax paying public? ROFL. $top living in a fictional world folk$.