Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensive batteries

Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by ZeroGravitas on Monday May 23, 2016 @06:47AM (#11752986)

The saudi oil minister said that if everyone in the world had as many cars as the US, then they wouldn't have enough oil. So that's a very aggressive yardstick you're setting for EVs.

It would be much more sensible to electrify the cars/busses/trucks/delivery vans that are driven a lot, that are driven in stop-start traffic, and that are driven in heavily populated areas first. That gives you much more bang-per-buck in terms of pollution and CO2 reductions.

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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by dredmorbius on Monday May 23, 2016 @09:09AM (#11753583)

There are a lot of things which fail to scale to an Earth-of-Americas. And some pretty good reasons to think that's generally not possible.

Pointing out which specific subcases remain impossible doesn't disprove the larger case.

There's a good question as to how scalable EV's are generally. Present scale is minuscule. A small feaction of a percent in the US, and that actually fell in 2015. I'm not sure what 2016 and future trends (based on pre-orders) look like.

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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by alex_duf on Monday May 23, 2016 @09:09AM (#11753586)

I'm really looking forward seeing big cities adopting EV for buses and cabs. In London the black cabs are noticeably more smelly than regular cars, and buses are... well buses.

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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by dzhiurgis on Monday May 23, 2016 @08:42AM (#11753460)

Don't forget noise pollution.

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