Electric cars are a complex algorithm. Battery technology is improving massively, giving faster charging, improved range and reduced cost.
What also doesn't factor in a lot of meeja, is that you can do without a gearbox and clutch, giving a major weight saving. And without that massive fossil-fuelled lump and gearbox and fuel tank, you can also lose a lot of weight in the chassis.
This all adds to battery range.
You can theoretically use lighter weight body panels/structure of the vehicle because potential impact severity will be much reduced with the reduced mass of the vehicle.
But would you make the vehicle of plastic ? That uses shed-loads of oil to manufacture, plus nasty chemicals.

Battery technology and how the electricity to charge the vehicles is generated are big factors. It is no good charging your vehicle from an oil-fired power station source.
Also you still have to factor in vehicle build costs and disposal of knackered batteries and end of vehicle life disposal.

And the major thing for me as a sometimes pedestrian, is that you can't hear the fcking electric cars coming.

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (07 Dec 2020 10.49am)

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I think they will have to add a sound don't do they do that in electric FI cars?

Good point about weight. Cars seem to be getting bigger hopefully manufacturers will reverse this trend.

One more point

Electric cars without a sound generator will not gain Type Approval.

Admittedly, in my case, it can and does get turned off. To compensate, I drive significantly slower, and in any case the car has autonomous braking together with an audible signal inside, so it's nearly impossible to collide with anything.

When reversing, I turn it back on again, which emits a reversing chime, while I keep an eye on the screen, and an ear on the sensors.

All the way through school my science teachers used to say the world is running out of oil.

Then through economics forces and innovative engineering we kept finding more.

Now, we are saying that we don't want to use oil anymore.

Whilst these are issues, they will be overcome. Just because there are problems, doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything.

The Earth is powered by the sun. Includes the Earth's and moons orbit. This dictates time and tides.
All the Earth's weather conditions are precipitated by The Sun.
Who was the most successful species on the planet. ?

Dinosaurs lived for millions of years on Earth until the comet crash.

Mankind has been around for around 5000 years, but we have put people on other space objects, and yet seek to obliterate our own planet.

Finking, it fcks you up

I disengage, I turn the page.

I have a question about electric cars as this is where motoring is heading.

What happens if you live in a flat or a house without parking. How do you charge the battery?

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit