Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Why Gas Engines Are Far From Dead - Biggest EV Problems" video.

@rogerphelps9939 " Time to move on to something better." When something better is available, people will move to it. That has always happened. If people aren't quickly switching to EV's it's because there are so many drawbacks to the current cars that it's not worth paying $70K for a car that can be bested in range and 25 years costs with a Toyota Corolla.
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@chaseflores2145 EV's won't expand in range until a completely new battery type is out of the lab and in everyday production.
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@chaseflores2145 The bigger problem is that battery won't last 25 years.
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@lhaa lol. Perpetual motion.
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You are absolutely correct, but the conversion efficiency isn't enough overcome the energy density in gasoline.
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@chaseflores2145 But when you look at the overall lifecycle of a car (25 years in many cases), what has the overall lower cost, that's really the question. And which is better from a resource perspective.
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@kevinlow69420 real cars can only be replaced up to a point. Based on the low rate of production, high prices, insufficient electric generation/transmission capacity and the growing consensus that this generation of EV's aren't quite ready for general use, it likely will take over 80 years to replace 1/2 the US fleet (currently at approximately 265M cars). So we'd better plan to keep drilling and pumping oil for the foreseeable future.
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