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the electric car might not make it too much further into the future

batteries seem to be a problem

Apple sucks. That is all.

The key thing that is missing is that while battery capacity has increased incrementally the price has dropped by a good amount every year. The last figure I saw a few years ago is that the price has dropped 10% every year since 2013. 

Even if the capacity never goes up 10% with current technology, battery powered cars will get cheaper and cheaper until they are on par with ICE and then fall below it. 

The key thing that is missing is that while battery capacity has increased incrementally the price has dropped by a good amount every year. The last figure I saw a few years ago is that the price has dropped 10% every year since 2013.

Even if the capacity never goes up 10% with current technology, battery powered cars will get cheaper and cheaper until they are on par with ICE and then fall below it.

cheaper for initial purchase

but, if the battery needs to be replaced after 12 years..............

That was easy!

I think they'd prefer batteries lasted longer, but they don't.  I don't know about suspension components, tires are said to wear faster.  The EVs are heavy vehicles.  Designwise, when you add weight, you have to add more weight to support that additional weight.

I don't see EVs taking over, so to speak, for many many years, at best (?).  The number will creep up of course, but it will take a while even if government requires new cars to be EVs by 2035 (which I suspect gets modified).  One projection says HALF by 2050, and that may be optimistic.

The first barrier I suspect will be getting two car HHs to have one of them be an EV, which might work for most.

had the EV Porsche for like a week and got rid of it. range on a full charge is only 240ish miles, which is a joke and you won't get anywhere close to that if you really drive it, because the battery life drains fast if you actually punch it and enjoy it. car is seriously gorgeous and the interior is beautiful and it's fast as hell, but...it sucks.

you have to download an app on your phone to find the fast chargers that are compatible, you can't just go to a Tesla supercharger station- which seem to be everywhere- and when you do find the compatible fast chargers there are lines sometimes for the chargers and you have to wait a long time to use them. takes like 40-50 minutes to charge from 38-40% to 95+% on the fast chargers- and who has time to do this all the time? and it's not cheap, about $16-$17 every time you have to charge, and you'll have to charge like every other day if you really drive it- which adds up. 

EVs are just not practical. At all. Range sucks on pretty much all of them except the long range Teslas. The charging infrastructure isn't there in the public- except for Tesla. EVs only make sense if you have the charging set up in your garage and you can charge the car every night and if you are only driving the EV locally maybe 40-50 miles a day. If you really drive and drive all around- an EV sucks.

I'd never get an EV, but if I did I would only get a Tesla. Even though I feel like the Tesla isn't that great looking and the interior of all their cars are complete and utter garbage. They just have better tech, better batteries and range, and better infrastructure for the charging in the public than any other company making EVs and it's not close imo.