the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Paramus NJ, as far as eclectic cars go electric cars everyone in Washington is for them , but car buyers are still not turning to electric vehicles .
We have nothing against EVs, but all of this nonsense about Americans transitioning from gas-powered to battery cars seems fantastical at best. The Biden projections are that by 2035 nearly every car on the road will be electric.
We were struck by the analysis below showing the dispersion rate of great inventions over the past 100 years or so. The flat line at the very bottom of the chart is consumer adoption of electric vehicles. Battery-operated cars have been available for many decades, but no technology has been slower to catch on than EVs. Less than 2% of cars on the road today are electric vehicles.
So at least for the next two decades, Americans will be using tens of billions of gallons of gasoline, and we’re all in for making sure that this energy comes from Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and North Dakota – not Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Agreed.
Its all socialist utopian virtue signaling.
Putting aside all of the nonsense about how electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly (they are not when you incorporate electricity generation, battery manufacturing and disposal, etc.), there are multitudes of obvious, practical restrictions and limitations making EV adoption impractical and in many cases impossible.
Here are a few “issues”:
– you cannot go on a long trip. until recharging from Zero to Full takes about the same time as filling up a tank of gas (about 5 minutes), long distance travel for the masses is impossible.
– What if you run out of electricity in a desolated area – can you carry a can of electricity back to your car? (an extra battery isn’t feasible at this time because the size of the required “emergency” battery is too large to be easily transported. There is also no facility to tie this emergency power into your dead EV.
– What about all of the people who have no garage or parking space ? I’m looking at you renters and city dwellers. How do you recharge overnight? This is not even looking at the security issue of having your car plugged in on a public street… what about the snow? the rain?
– What about electricity theft? Once there is widespread adoption, “free” charging stations will go away. All of you “street parkers” will expect to have your electricity stolen.
– I can go on and on, but you are probably starting to get the picture that widespread EV adoptions is a LONG, LONG way away. there needs to be MAJOR advances in battery technology AND MASSIVE INNOVATION in practical solutions for “common man” EV utilization.
…that said, I’m still long in Tesla.
Just because something something is impractical, doesn’t mean that you can’t make money with it…
These electric vehicles are so overrated, so political.