Electric cars suffer from an extreme weakness: exceptionally volatile batteries. Until that is fixed, EVs shouldn't ever become a mainstay, because they are simply more dangerous to drive than normal combustion engines.
You get in a car wreck with an EV, you genuinely risk the damn thing exploding, especially if its raining.
Even if they fix that, there is still the problem of batteries having a short usable life and cost more than the rest of the car. EVs are five to six figure disposable items because of it. An ICE car will run for a century if you maintain it.
Well, a car made a decade ago, yes. Most American cars made today have serious issues. Hell, Chevy has a engine whose average mileage between catastrophic failures is less than 10k miles.
Electric cars suffer from an extreme weakness: exceptionally volatile batteries. Until that is fixed, EVs shouldn't ever become a mainstay, because they are simply more dangerous to drive than normal combustion engines.
You get in a car wreck with an EV, you genuinely risk the damn thing exploding, especially if its raining.
Even if they fix that, there is still the problem of batteries having a short usable life and cost more than the rest of the car. EVs are five to six figure disposable items because of it. An ICE car will run for a century if you maintain it.
Well, a car made a decade ago, yes. Most American cars made today have serious issues. Hell, Chevy has a engine whose average mileage between catastrophic failures is less than 10k miles.