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Originally Posted by MarkOK
The problemE with the cases you mention is that to get decent performance metrics you need a LOT of battery weight. A "Tesla semi" for example would only be able to carry half the load weight as a regular semi to not violate weight restrictions on US highways. So, it's 'half' the logistical efficiency just on how much load you can move.
Ultimately, I think the US (especially) needs to focus on better urban planning so that over time we need fewer individual cars overall, and with cars, focus more on mileage efficiencies for ICEs and overall weights and sizes for safety reasons (most cars and trucks, especially EVS, are way too effing big), than forcing EV infrastructure to be built and letting cars grow to the size and weights of tanks.
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Battery technology will improve and will become lighter. They're already working on that, and even other storage ideas for power.
Yes, all these early EVs are heavy as hell, but imagine once you can create all this electric power and the batteries way half as much as they do now? Or 1/4 as much as weight? It's coming. EVs and battery technology are in their infancy as a mass market idea. Way more R&D is being spent to figure this out, so expect rapid advancements over the next decade...so by the 3rd and 4th gen EVs, the numbers will be astonishing - 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds, with a 500-mile range, and rapid charging from Empty to Full in 30 minutes!...with a lateral g of 1.3. Oh, and it seats 5 people comfortably
Then people buying those cars will laugh at our old ICE vehicles, which will have less performance and will be less efficient (and will have antiquated interior technology)...just like we wonder why those old guys in their '67 Cadillacs still like their antiquated tanks that get 11 mpg with an originally-sourced AM radio in the dash.
