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Energy Efficiency? (In terms of the amount of the stored energy put into the car that actually goes towards spinning wheels and not making loud noises and lots
by mattnewton 4y ago
Energy Efficiency? (In terms of the amount of the stored energy put into the car that actually goes towards spinning wheels and not making loud noises and lots of heat)
Electrical energy can be renewable generated without carbon emission unlike hydrocarbon energy?
Oh and better acceleration and handling in my experience.
Early cars were also dangerous death traps, and modern ICE cars can't just drive away after being submerged either. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater; There is work to be done to mitigate water shorts of completely submerged batteries but this seems like an edge case to fix not a reason to throw out the idea of electric cars.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoEVs + batteries take a lot more energy and raw materials to manufacture but break even relatively quickly on both accounts since you get to charge them with electricity that may come from clean non-carbon energy sources like nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal as opposed to filling up regularly with dirty and high-carbon fossil and biofuel. If you charge with coal or gas-generated electricity the breakeven is slower but still generally does happen over a period of some years.