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Okay, now I'm picturing you sitting there, holding a whole one of these things in your hands, just chomping away at it...
I like an occasional pumpkin pie, but I buy it from a bakery. I lost my liking for whole pumpkins the year my mother tried to grow them. She got conflicting advice on how to plant them, decided to split the difference, and we still had pumpkins all over the place.
Yes, which is why I participate a lot more in them now than before.
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Why is the electric car being further developed and worked on when the electric car is a technological dead end?
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I don't know. It was what I was told. I think it's that the batteries will never be good enough in both capacity and charging time to make electric cars workable in the real world. It's one of the things they complain about.
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They're doing work in developing solid state batteries. And graphene, but that's one of those "I'll believe it when I see it" things. I wouldn't say that battery tech is at a dead end. We just haven't figured out a way to break through the ceiling yet.
But as @cardgame states, electric cars already work in the real world. There are many applications where they don't, or where you'd be better off using a hybrid, but to classify them as completely non-viable would be inaccurate.
But as @cardgame states, electric cars already work in the real world. There are many applications where they don't, or where you'd be better off using a hybrid, but to classify them as completely non-viable would be inaccurate.
They mainly don't have the required range yet to compete with normal cars, but it'll probably only take a few years and that problem will be solved again.
Yeah, I have that too, in various situations.
And then I think that I can be a tad bit selfish, because I don't know everyone else.
Yeah, I have that too, in various situations.
And then I think that I can be a tad bit selfish, because I don't know everyone else.
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Some electric cars have a range of over 300km. That should be enough unless you want to drive through some godforsaken desert or tundra.
On food: I mostly feel bad when I have to throw out weeks old vegetables because I'm too lazy to cook.
On food: I mostly feel bad when I have to throw out weeks old vegetables because I'm too lazy to cook.
The US is immense.
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So is Russia, hence the tundra.
Don't they have gas stations every 300km ?
You could drive from LA to New York if you change batteries ten times.
Where this comes from is the idea that Crony Capitalism wants it, therefor it must be The Truth.
But that isn't really true.
And that really isn't relevant.
What is true is that the percentage of passenger cars which travel on any given day further than the distance they could on battery is trivially small. What does it matter if a car 'only' has a 300 mile range if is driven 20-40 miles every day? Over 99% of passenger cars could be replaced with electrics at current operating ranges and no one would ever run into a problem. When someone knows they'll be driving further, they can rent a car for that trip.
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Under current car ownership, this is not really what is important. Even if 99% of your days you only travel 20-40 miles, as long as sometimes you want to go more than 300 miles (or much less than that if you want to be safe) you do not want an electric car.
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No, if want to go more than 300 miles you want to take a train.
Not in the US.
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