ishtat
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Electric cars as urban runabouts, taxis, city centre buses and light delivery vehicles make a lot of sense, environmentally and economically in inner cities. Not so much on longer trips, but when the range gets up to 500 miles or so, legacy auto producers are in trouble. America has two circumstances which will make adoption slower, firstly lots of cheap gas, and secondly, its major carmakers, Tesla excepted, are producing grossly overpriced poor quality EV's. Meanwhile, BYD, Geely, MG, Volvo and other Chinese car makers are producing good quality product particularly in the $12,000 to $25,000 range. That fact is a scary prospect for both European and American legacy manufacturers.
There are significant infrastructure problems to be overcome, There are not enough charging points, though Shell announced this week that they intend to install a further 200,000 - not enough but a start. EV's will also not need the enormously expensive dealer networks IC cars require.
We have an EV, a small 4 door BYD runabout, used for commuting and shopping, it probably has not been more than 125 Km on a single trip so far. Power is from rooftop solar on the house and a wall battery.
There are significant infrastructure problems to be overcome, There are not enough charging points, though Shell announced this week that they intend to install a further 200,000 - not enough but a start. EV's will also not need the enormously expensive dealer networks IC cars require.
We have an EV, a small 4 door BYD runabout, used for commuting and shopping, it probably has not been more than 125 Km on a single trip so far. Power is from rooftop solar on the house and a wall battery.