I noticed that you attacked the messenger, but did not refute any of the points made in the article, which cites its sources and links to studies and research.
I didn't read it. I don’t read Mad magazine anymore either.
Modern wisdom says that you can buy a scientist cheaper than you can buy a politician, and newspaper journalists go even cheaper. Also, the large majority of all published scientific studies and research are eventually refuted. Over 3/4!
It’s like the old joke about the accountant.
A Rich Man goes to a teacher and he asks him, “How much is 2+2?” The teacher replied that, scientifically, the answer is four. He goes to a lawyer and ask the same question. The lawyer tells him, “According to the law, the answer is four.”
Then the rich man goes to an accountant and asks him, “How much is 2+2?” The accountant smiles, Looks at his fine clothes, and asks him, “How much do you want it to be?”
I really don't understand your fears about this. You yourself have admitted that it is less likely than winning the lottery.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/you-are-wrong-about-ev-fires?slide=1
I was being generous. You are statistically much less likely to win the lotto here, than have your lithium-ion car burn.
If you think my concern is a matter of fear, perhaps you don’t understand that I am angry. Our car companies can produce stuff that just blows up randomly in mundane situations. The government leaned on them to do the impossible, so they claim it, and just pretend they have.
It is just scam on scam on scam.
Tesla just recalled 2 million cars because they scammed people into believing the cars can drive themselves reliably. They cannot, and now people are crashing Teslas, so Tesla has to do something.
Do they admit to the people that the autopilot system is a scam, and it can’t really drive itself reliably, and they should not trust it?
No. What they do is add more bells and whistles to a system on which people have already figured out how to defeat the bells and whistles with ordinary things like duck tape and beer cans.
Or you could engineer a better solution, make it work. I'm sure these electric boats are able to get wet.
Being a boat, they probably have much better waterproofing than a jeep.
The bottom line is this: there’s nothing impossible with the EV idea, but the execution has been much less than perfect. The problems have been soft peddled and covered up.
EVs are more expensive to manufacture, and they are worth the extra money. On paper. In the real world we have not come close to the breakeven point. It might be different if everyone is able to charge these things with solar power, but that is not realistic.
Solar power here is only economical because of government subsidies.
I understand in Canada the tax on imported solar panels is so high (285%?) no one can afford them. The one domestic company that does manufacture in Canada is owned by the Chinese!
The Chinese are gonna have us all driving EV’s and burning coal to supply the electricity for them.
BTW I have owned cars built in Canada, and I don’t have anything against Canadian folks. Or the Chinese.
I just think that we jumped the gun on this whole business and it is costing us, and will continue to. We needed way more investment in design up front, so we don’t have to live with the problems later.
It’s not like people didn’t know the problems with lithium. But of course they don’t mention them on any of the sales literature or in the Times.
They do however promote the fact that we have discovered huge new lithium deposits that we can exploit.
