EVs are the future of personal and commercial ground transportation. Period. Full stop.
All of the large, legacy auto manufacturers are now admitting this and all have EVs for sale and/or in development.
No, they will not be an easy plug and play replacement for ICE vehicles with their large supportive infrastructure developed over the past 100 years with $trillions$ of government subsidies. But they will replace them nevertheless.
The process is already well underway evidenced by the sales numbers and development plans for new EVs and discontinuation of ICE vehicles by the large automakers. The only ones who don't seem to accept this are the uninformed or those whose political biases or cognitive dissoance prevent them from acknowledging it.
Their will never be anything to fully replace the amazing combination of energy density and easy transportability of oil derived liquid fuels. Hydrogen was an idea explored as a possibility but the last few decades have proven that the expense and difficulty of transporting and transferring it safely and efficiently along with other short comings mean that it will never become a primary means of fueling vehicles. The few legacy token research and prototype vehicles are all that remains of that pipe dream.
Biofuels are also a dead end for mass adoption which is clear to anyone who understands their energetics and fossil fuel dependence for mass production.
EVs are the best we can do and all we can hope for is that the political will materializes to allow a fast enough transition away from fossil fuel dependent electricity production so that future generations will have some availability of mechanized transportation as the oil age comes to a close.
Well said.
In reading this you made me think of pollution control devices on cars. It was over 100 years ago California had the cleanest air. People moved here because of the clean air. Then in the late 1940s the air was mysteriously becoming polluted. It took a UC Berkeley scientist to figure out the reason the air was becoming polluted was car exhaust.
By the 1960s the air was so polutted your eyes would water and your throat would burn from all of the air pollution. Had our governement not steped in and ordered car manufactures to install polution controll devices our air would be unbreathable. But besace they did, and the car manufractures and consumers tried to prevent it our air is clean and breathable once again. (Except when we have forest fires.)
What I am getting at is EVs might be more expelsinve today, and might not be exactly what consumers want today. But in the long there is no doubt they are better for all of society.
Just as consumers 100 years ago favored ICE cars over ECE and EVs. We are slowly seeing consuers starting to favor EVs. And with companies like Volvo discontinuing ICE cars. Then you have GM announcing they will be closing 15 ICE car manufactoring plants one can see something's going on. And then we have Ford announing they will discontinue manufacturing ICE cars and want's to become a Tech company like Tesla.
With all of these chages occuring it will force consumers to pruchae EVs. And at that happens we will see more charging stations and improvements to the electrial distrubution system. Will "we" be inconvienced as this change occurs? Probably, put just like the gas shortage and linse to get gas in the 1970s will we figure this it out.
Let me leave you with one last thought. If you wanted to start a new business manufacturing cars what energy source would you use to power the car? Steam, gasoline/ICE or fuel cell, Hydrogen, nuclear, compressed air or electrical? Of maybe you might want to make buggies becuea you think horses will make a comeback.
I think there's are reason Volvo and Tesala are in the EV camp..... It is our future. If you dsagree start making cars and see if anyone will buy them.