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Regret's avatar

Ethanol is just as bad. The problem with battery cars is that they're still cars.

Those massive lumps of metal and plastic are absurdly heavy for the cargo they are moving. We figured out that the vehicle needs to weigh less than the cargo around the time of the pyramids when we used logs as rollers to move heavy stone.

Also, cars cause massive amounts of damage to the roads they use (again, because they are so absurdly heavy).

Not to mention that cars indirectly cause people to spread out more, which increases the amount of roads, pipes, and lines you need per capita with accompanying maintenance costs. An alternative way of looking at the same issue is that the property tax income per square mile drops (because you have less people living on the same area). Your town is going bankrupt because of unprofitable suburbs.

And there is no actual benefit, since people still commute on average 40 minutes of travel time. Your car might be moving faster, but your travel time is identical.

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Dragon with the girl tattoo's avatar

uhm, car battery exchange is not as easy as changing the battery on your vape.How much an electric vehicle (EV) battery weighs depends greatly on the vehicle and model. On average, however, EV batteries weigh around 454 kg (1,000 pounds), although some can weigh as much as 900 kg (2,000 pounds).

Elon tried another lie, where he claimed that a tesla battery could be changed faster than it took a comparable gas powered car to fill the tank with fuel. On the video used to demonstrate this, all you could see was a tesla stop on a platform, wait ca 90 seconds then driving off the platform. No moving parts was visible underneath it.https://techcrunch.com/2013...

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