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Electric vehicles in a car-shaped form factor is a non-starter, yes. It's not meant to be used that way, and it doesn't make sense.

• quonn 4y ago
  It already makes much more sense the ICE cars. And we had those for a long time.
  • otabdeveloper4 4y ago
    Sticking a metric ton of (what is effectively) rechargeable AA batteries into a car-shaped thing is ridiculous. We're only doing something so insane because we have existing car-shaped infrastructure. But the future isn't that. The future is mostly one- and two-wheeled personal transport on top of walkable cities.
    • quonn 4y ago
      > Sticking a metric ton of (what is effectively) rechargeable AA batteries into a car-shaped thing is ridiculous. This is not enough to make an argument. If you could plausibly argue why this approach can't scale or why we will run out of resources, fine. > But the future isn't that. The future is mostly one- and two-wheeled personal transport on top of walkable cities. Because you say so? There is nothing - nothing at all - that suggests things are going that way. If anything there will be more public transport, such as trains, buses and especially subways. And there will be a lot of EVs.
      • otabdeveloper4 4y ago
        The car-shaped form factor exists because we can't fit a working internal combustion engine into anything else, realistically. But 99 percent of the time, people don't need the whole car. An electric kick scooter is more than enough, if there was somewhere to ride it that wasn't dangerous due to cars. Economics will eventually fix this problem and infrastructure will match what people actually want.