People will keep getting ICE cars. Do you know why? Because IT DOESN'T NEED A BATTERY.
The battery is the single most fragile, heavy, dangerous, expensive, stressful ("range anxiety") and annoying component of an EV, and one which degrades at an alarming rate, just by using it normally.
Guess what, a fuel tank doesn't shrink every time you fill it.
And it doesn't shrink even FASTER when you fill it to the top.
Or let it go empty.
Or run in cold weather.
Or hot weather.
Or you drive fast.
Or too slow.
Or when you fill the tank too fast. Where "too fast" is dripping it in for 30 to 60 minutes a pop.
Or when you don't drive the car for too long.
On top of that, the starting range of the top BEV is half an ICE car. That's on a new car, before all the magical "shrinking" happens.
Batteries are WORSE than anything the automobile industry has from the past 50+ years. And people are slowly realizing that.
Ah yes. Nothing better than waking up in the morning and smelling lead, nickel and cobalt from a li-ion battery that caught fire somewhere in your neighborhood. Or in your garage.
Not the same at all. First, a gas car doesn't simply catch fire while sitting in a dense parking lot. That's the most likely place for an EV to catch fire, as it's charging.
Second, when a gas car catches fire, it's almost always after a car incident. Firefighters arrive, and put the fire out easily.
Do you know what firefighters do when an EV catches fire? Nothing can stop this fire. Literally nothing. So firefighters have to evacuate everyone at least half a mile in radius. Then let it burn down. Which may take a full day. Or more. Read the protocols.
I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
I've owned multiple cars which have had multiple recalls for catching fire while parked. I've had multiple neighbors have house fires from parked ICE vehicles. You're massively wrong for thinking ICE vehicles don't catch fire while parked.
The battery is the single most fragile, heavy, dangerous, expensive, stressful ("range anxiety") and annoying component of an EV, and one which degrades at an alarming rate, just by using it normally.
Guess what, a fuel tank doesn't shrink every time you fill it.
And it doesn't shrink even FASTER when you fill it to the top.
Or let it go empty.
Or run in cold weather.
Or hot weather.
Or you drive fast.
Or too slow.
Or when you fill the tank too fast. Where "too fast" is dripping it in for 30 to 60 minutes a pop.
Or when you don't drive the car for too long.
On top of that, the starting range of the top BEV is half an ICE car. That's on a new car, before all the magical "shrinking" happens.
Batteries are WORSE than anything the automobile industry has from the past 50+ years. And people are slowly realizing that.