Re:The Case Against More Ethanol (2016)
by sokoloff on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:09PM
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GP made 5 fairly reasonable claims about EVs today. You counter by asserting that his arguments are "very outdated" citing as evidence an article that predicts sometime in the future 2 of the 5 claims will be around parity and a Tesla claim that a third may achieve parity sometime unspecified in the future.
Sometime in the future, some of those arguments might be outdated, but they don't strike me that way now.
We still will have EVs with limited range and a lack of universal charging infrastructure. (I say this as the overall happy owner of a LEAF, but it's a bit of a toy rather than a car that I can rely on for all of my travel needs, relying on my wife's car and aircraft for distance travel and using the LEAF only around town.)
UBS Predicts EV Price Parity In 2024: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/22/ubs-predicts-ev-price-p...
In summary: Battery-electric cars will be "worth it" in 2022, and cost the same as a gas car in 2024.
Also: Tesla is very close to making its batteries cost the same as a gas car. What they are going to do is turn the bulk and weight of the battery into a structural member of the frame. (Recently announced on Battery Day.)