Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "U.S. Survey Reveals American's want Toyota EV's; they're very confused" video.

This analogy to horse drawn carriage is getting old and honestly is not the same. the leap from horse to cars is much greater than the leap from ice to EV.
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@neilkurzman4907 again depending on your usage. For most average people EV makes sense. But if you were a grandma only driving 2km to church every Sunday, carrying a long range EV battery that can go 300+ miles is a waste and it will still degrades with calendar aging despite low mileage usage.
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If you are driving less than 20kkm a year, buying an EV is a waste and not necessarily good for environment. If you drive 5k a year, just keep your ice car
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@neilkurzman4907 I believe you are misinformed. It's really bad for battery to be left fully or nearly fully charged for a long time. For lithium battery ideal storage state of charge is half charged. Even then it'll degrade with calendar time.
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@neilkurzman4907 sure, proper maintenance will extend the battery life for sure but not indefinitely.. the shelf life of any battery is about 10 years or so, maybe some can go to 15. But it's largely a function of calendar aging, not mileage. Some military vehicles are 50 years old and still run fine because they rarely get used but well maintained and regularly run for short exercise. In that sense a pure mechanical system like ice can last indefinitely as far as calendar aging is concerned but limited by wear and tears if mileage used. Whereas batteries don't have wear and tear but will still degrade with calendar aging even if used very little. That's why for a Bev to make economic sense it should have certainly amount of mileage per year or over. I'd like to see delivery and commercial vehicles get converted to EVs that will be much more efficient use of resources then making luxury personal EVs that might not accumulate much mileage before battery degrades anyway.
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