#1
The safety for the occupants only of a Tesla, Complete mayhem if they are pedestrians in the way and the Tesla is barrelling toward them. Or inside of a "lesser" car. Or on a motorcycle.
How is this different to a regular car? Or are you talking about autopilot... because that's fairly unique to Tesla's. But either way not really relevant to EVs.
#2
Even higher powered electric vehicles in the hands of people who were driving around in older Petrol cars.
Power output won't remain at lower levels, it will continue to go up and up and up well into the performance of 2,000 hp or even 3,000 hp vehicles, on public roads. In the hands of inexperienced everyday drivers.
Not sure about this. Cars like the Leaf, Zoe, ID.3, e-208 for European EV's, for instance, are all in the 200hp-or-less category. They are really no faster than mid range petrol cars. They have slightly better torque but their 0-60 times are comparable.
What's more dangerous than anything, especially in the city, is speed, not acceleration, and even a 0.9L Fiat 500 can be dangerous in that situation. In fact, if anything, EV's are less dangerous in that their top speed is typically under 100 mph due to their single gear design. Tesla and the like can go much faster due to having motors that can turn faster, but these are expensive to build.
It costs more to build an EV with a bigger motor - these cars need bigger battery packs, different cells, thicker current collectors and the inverters, motors and gearbox components need to be uprated too. So manufacturers won't just produce 1000 hp EVs as a standard subcompact car, because the market won't want to pay the extra $20,000 in components that requires. Also, such power in a small vehicle is useless for anything but drag racing, you need a good suspension and large tyres to actually use that torque on a track. Such components imply greater weight and cost, and bigger tyres tend to be less efficient due to higher rolling resistance.
So in short, no, I don't think your little subcompact city car will go up to 1,000 hp, and I suspect for Golf-to-Corolla sized cars the power output will stay around the 200 hp mark, with only 'sport' models offering more than that. 2,000 to 3,000 hp - you do realise the latter figure is >2000kW? For even an 800V EV (only a few cars are using that architecture now, most are 400V, including Tesla) that is well over 2,500A peak current, just think about the implications for wiring and motor design to accommodate that, no way we will see that any time soon except in the ultra high end performance category where $250k+ price tags look cheap.
#3
Complete ignorance of the pollution problem, that is pushing the pollution onto Coal power plants "out of sight out of mind".
In a time when coal plants are progressively being taken offline and wind and nuclear are beginning to dominate the grid.
#4
Insane expense of an electric car and a brand new charging network needing to be built.
Well, the cars are definitely more expensive, for now. As for the charging network a lot of it is built up already, it needs to be scaled for demand so instead of 2 spaces we need 16+. That will cost a bit too. The alternative is building more hydrogen filling stations which cost even more.
#5
The added pollution from making all of these new electric cars when people will most likely crush their older ICE vehicles instead of running them on the roads for longer. Where are those ICE vehicles going? Oh right, landfill, creating even more pollution.
No, this has been debunked a number of times. In general, an EV is expected to be net-beneficial on emissions by around the 2nd or 3rd year of ownership. Also, ICE should be phased out slowly, with the vehicles just not being built past a certain date and allowed to die a 'natural death'. It may be necessary to accelerate this process if emissions targets aren't reached in time but it's not clear yet if that will be necessary.
#6
The slave labour of Lithium mining hasn't been addressed, only ignored.
The majority of lithium for electric vehicle battery packs comes from Australia, Chile and Argentina, countries which do not use slave labour.
#7
The danger of a battery pack catching fire to top it off.
Sure, it's a different risk, but a battery pack is much less likely to burn than an ICE vehicle fire, given they use flammable fuel and oil, have very hot exhaust and engine components and require good maintenance to prevent these components from causing fire (e.g. oil leaks onto exhaust parts.)
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