You've already read the horror stories about replacing a battery in an EV. After about 8-10 years of use, you have to replace it, at a cost of $8-10K. Naturally, you decide to trade it in.
Not so fast.
The dealer does math pretty well, you know. An 8-10 year old car has about 20% of its original price in value if it's running. But if the dealer has to pop another $7-8K to get it to run.....doesn't add up unless you really want to take a bath on your $55K cute "I'm responsible, see!!" garage ornament.
How much of a bath? How about getting token money--say, $1K--for the trade?
...Batteries are lousy at storing large amounts of energy.
“Batteries leak, and they don’t hold a lot,” says physicist Mark Mills.
Mills thinks electric cars are great but explains that “oil begins with a huge advantage: 5,000% more energy in it per pound. Electric car batteries weigh 1,000 pounds. Those 1,000 pounds replace just 80 pounds of gasoline.”
But future batteries will be better, I point out.
“Engineers are really good at making things better,” Mills responds, “but they can’t make them better than the laws of physics permit.”
That’s inconvenient fact 4. Miracle batteries powerful enough to replace fossil fuels are a fantasy....
"Fantasy Land" used to be a Disney thing. Now it's the Left's living quarters.
More:
... “Roughly speaking, you have to double your electric grid to move the energy out of gasoline into the electric sector,” says Mills. “No one is planning to double the electric grid, so they’ll be rationing.”...
Eeenie-Meeenie, Miney, Moe!! YOU get to walk to work today!!!
One more.....
...“Even if you cover the entire continent of the United States with solar panels, you wouldn’t supply half of America’s electricity,” Mills points out. Even if you added “Washington Monument-sized wind turbines spread over an area six times greater than the state of New York, that wouldn’t be enough.”...
But....wait, wait!!! If it required leveling New York City..........let's think about this............
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