evs are retarded. to have the same range as petrol, they need to weigh more than double what a petrol car does, and that offsets the efficiency gain from central power production at the coal and oil plants so negatively that the energy loss exceeds the relative inefficiency of converting petrol's chemical potential into mechanical effort. they have to be so fucking obese, so stuffed with energy reserves, that they are more fuel consuming than a petrol car. in order to have an ev that doesn't have this problem, you need to produce it so it only has 100 miles of range, a smaller battery. but then nobody will buy it because you can only charge so quickly and fuck that range anxiety. that doesn't even take the political stability of manufacturing into consideration. any country can make a suitable battery: the sodium-ion battery. there's just 1 fucking problem with it. it's half the energy density of li-ion, meaning that the 500 mile range ev that weighs 1,3 tonne more than the petrol equivalent does, now needs to weigh 4 tonnes more than the petrol equivalent to get the same range. at least it won't self-immolate and it'll charge 10x as fast. at least any country can manufacture them cheaply, at any production scale you can be bothered to fund. at least you can use that same tech to store the gay solar power and gay wind energy. not that countries are doing that ofc, they didn't go full electric just to have power available to everybody, no that wasn't the goal, they wanna be able to unplug you for wrongthink and bad do.
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