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"safe gas stations" sounds a bit like "clean coal" in this context. Safety isn't the primary issue at play here. Both batteries and gasoline are energy storage

"safe gas stations" sounds a bit like "clean coal" in this context. Safety isn't the primary issue at play here. Both batteries and gasoline are energy storage mediums and come with some level of unsafety (Not to mention moving > 60MPH on highways is intrinsically unsafe). I'll argue burning oil is not safe for our environment! The metric we're all arguing over is practicality, and appeal which are highly subjective.

tomohawk 7y ago
The incumbent solution (ICE) gets 500 miles of range on a 5 minute charge with 5 year old storage, when it is 5 degrees F. You can wave your "subjective" wand and dismiss this, but new solutions are always compared to the current one. Here's an example of what happens when the reality of the insufficient range of a Tesla kicks in: https://jalopnik.com/german-environmental-minister-returned-tesla-model-s-ov-1798363790 https://jalopnik.com/german-environmental-minister-returned-... I think it would be great if EVs would be successful, but don't tell me they're equivalent when they are not. By the time my ICE is down to the range of an EV, it's time for me to fill up again. The short range of the EVs is just unacceptable. I'd be totally willing to buy an equivalent EV, but the current crop of them are not equivalent, and they cost a lot more.