Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Why Electric Vehicles Are Impossible To Afford" video.

The usual EV fanatic will say why do you need to travel that far anyway? When I travel I stop every 150 miles to stretch my legs and get something to eat. There's no way you can do 400 miles without stopping, because I've never been able to do it. And anyway, EVs will be able to go 1000 miles soon, Tesla has he greatest engineers, they're the leaders and they're working on new battery technology and will probably be there next year It's mainly a bunch of rationalizations about how they use EVs and if you use them differently, you're either lying or you're doing it wrong.
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@TonyShepps Can you break down where those $7T of subsidies came from say.... last year? It's not the accelerated depletion allowance; that was stopped 30 years ago. Curious where you get your $7T figure and have you questioned how a subsidy can be bigger than twice the entire US budget? Who exactly is subsidizing it, since it's not the US government based on the figure you gave.
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Lithium batteries are a problem. Pound for pound, they only deliver 1/10th the power of gasoline.
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When government picks winners and losers, the not only distort the market, they've doomed the EV market for the long run because no manufacturer is incentivized to make EVs profitable. Why bother if the taxpayers are picking up the tab?
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The obvious problem is windmills fail about every 12 years and have to be replaced. Like the batteries.
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@andyman8630 You could flip the windmill around so it generates power and pushes the car along so you don't run out of battery.
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DucknCoverin ...people had to still keep and feed a horse so it could fart into bottles to make their cars go. No different than relying on fossil fuels to power EVs Yes, farting into a bottle is exactly the same as going to a gas station to fill up your car. One can see that clearly. You're a master of analogies.
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@zoransarin5411 The big breakthroughs in lithium battery range have been made. Any EV with a lithium battery should be considered first generation. Fantastic compared with the lead-acid EVs of 30 years go, and a great around-town car, but not up to the standard set by gas/diesel cars.
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@zoransarin5411 It's really not. The next administration will largely ignore it, as will other countries, since it's primarily the far east countries doing the bulk of the polluting. You probably don't realize that to get to zero carbon, we'd have to stop most farming, give up the convenience of modern life, and in general pretend like it's 1850 again. Good luck selling that to the public.
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