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I think we are looking at this from perhaps different sides. Oil is only ubiquitous because we painstakingly distribute it. My point was we already distribute
by onethought 3y ago
I think we are looking at this from perhaps different sides.
Oil is only ubiquitous because we painstakingly distribute it. My point was we already distribute electricity quite effectively (without trucks and pumps etc).
I’ll concede a highly skilled rider and a high end bike could outpace/outcorner. But I think the fun of an EV or a Tesla specifically is that anybody can drive at a high level with relative ease because of the weight and low centre of gravity.
I think you are right at the extremes, high end porches out manueveur teslas. High reliability Toyotas out last Tesla. High performance Mercedes out perform a Tesla. But the reason people enjoy teslas is they perform extremely well across a number of those areas.
The EV transition is actually inevitable. Oil is finite, solar is not (we’ll give or take some billions of years). I don’t think it’s about virtue signalling or politics. It’s pure pragmatism. Pushing for more oil consumption is literally kicking the can down the road. Transitioning vehicles to electric extends the use of our finite resource for things we don’t have an alternative for (plastics and rubbers, and long haul air travel)