>They're better than ICE in every way,
Wrong. The limitations of the technology currently available are significant. It will be at least 15 years before they are truly better in every way.
Why aren't more automaker specializing in electric vehicles? They're better than ICE in every way, the demand is huge...
Ryan Thomas
Owen Phillips
insurance, maintenance and registration
driving one car at a time, it still costs twice as much to own two vehicles.
joke is, it's still more environmentally friendly to own a gas motorcycle instead of a fucking ridiculous 1 tonne tesla shit.
if electric shits cared about the environment we would be back to the sinclair C5 only it would work now because we have cheap lithium cells instead of the 6km range that the 20kg of SLAs offered, CVTs and better more efficient electric motors.
Isaac Turner
Just imagine if everyone rode bikes
IIHS would find a way to make them fat as fuck and caged for "crash test reliability"
Christian Ward
>battery life
>kwh capacity
>weight
>improved in 15 years
not likely, hybrids on E85 and diesel with toroidal CVTs are more likely to take over than all electric.
I mean the overpriced BMW i8 is already miles better than the M3.
What this means is the death of N/A but also the death of turbolag. expect 650cc econoboxes with shitloads of torque and 200hp forced induction power at 6500rpm with no lag and instant torque in your bear future.
Jayden Campbell
>E85
A complete dead end failure. E85 can't compete with gasoline without subsidies and even then is still a failure.
Joseph Thomas
Brazil will most likely start exporting alot of E85, same with mexico and other countries.
The US is a weird place when it comes to alcohol addatives since you can keep your cars forever there.
Unless new cars have fuel flex to be sold in the US and the government GTFOs the picture so people other than corn farmers can start making alcohol out of algae then it would be a rough start there. Elsewhere they have been running E90 like fuels since the 90s
Aaron Martin
>Elsewhere they have been running E90 like fuels since the 90s
What? Show me where they've been running 90% ethanol, 10% gasoline fuel for the past 30 years. I'll wait.
Luis Jenkins
I would confidently say you're wrong.
Jonathan Davis
Well the problem with the E85 subsidies in America is the corn itself. It leads to an overabundance of corn, which feeds the use of corn syrup and other corn related food "products", and the environmental effects of needing to protect that corn are disastrous. There's a shitload of runoff that goes straight to the Mississippi Delta and adds to the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone. Not good.
There are likely much better uses for the land there than making truckloads of corn but if the farmers get paid by the government for making corn for E85 why would they farm anything else?
It's going to be interesting seeing how alternative fuels evolve alongside gasoline in the next decades.
Christopher Myers
replacement batteries for the S are fixed at 10k for the 60kwh and 12k for the 85 kwh. That is of course after the the 8 year battery warranty has expired. while the warranty is still on the battery, Tesla pays to replace it.