work well in VERY specific situations:
- Warm climate year-round
- Used locally only
- Charged each night at home.
Those things don’t alleviate ALL the problems, of course. But I think that under those conditions it could theoretically work.
But fire is a HUGE issue; when those batteries burn it is pretty much impossible to extinguish them. And they are prone to fire after even a minor parking lot ding in the right place. Insurers don’t want to pay for a new $20,000+ battery! And if they are in your garage when they spontaneously combust…
Plus, the batteries are fabricated with slave (usually child slave) labor. Let’s just say that it is morally problematic…
There are very “torquey” vehicles. Motion sickness is a real problem for many. It does help to pipe in artificial revving noises. But even that is not a panacea. My wife and kids, for example, are prone to motion sickness–so an EV is absolutely not in the cards for us.
There are just too many problems for me to list here. But I really don’t think they are ready for primetime, and won’t be until we have a new and better battery technology. Maybe that will come. Yeah, maybe…
A hybrid makes more sense to me from a pure technology standpoint. But that doesn’t alleviate all the problems with the battery…