Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

I think if they figured out some sort of battery standard so that people could more easily get them swapped would help. But, there's also the issue that many people live in places where they don't yet have a charging station at their home or office. I couldn't even have one installed one if I wanted to and an increasing number of housing units around here aren't even required to have a parking space, let alone actual charging capacity.
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@jamesgrover2005 Yes, although, gas cars have a lot less need to worry about filing up. I'm aware that there are some areas of the world where there are no filling station, but even in that case, there's the ability to bring fuel to the car in a way that isn't for EVs.
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That's probably a lot of it. The infrsastructure is improving, I've seen the local electric utiltiy installing curb side charging stations. But, while you do save a fair amount on gas and maintenance with an EV, any savings you get tends to be further out into the future due to the significant up front investment.
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Not of a problem as much as it might seem, most people don't drive far enough in a given day to run out of battery life. It's more for things like interstate truckers and road trips where the battery life becomes an issue. Even the slower charging EVs can charge enough to go nearly 180mi in an hour. Which is a bit on the slowside, but if you're charging while eating, that's not an issue. 180miles is also nearly 3 hours of driving on the interstate, at that point, you're probably going to want a longer break in order to stretch the legs and rest. Obviously, there are a few issues, that assumes that there's an appropriate charger, but most road trips are going to have chargers somewhere along the route, unless you're really going off the beaten path.
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@romanpolanski4928 That's not going to happen because people aren't going to need to charge that fast. The only time when charging that fast is particularly helpful is if you're on a road trip. Most people are going to be trickle charging when at work or at home because slower charging is better for the batteries than rapid charging is. The places where they expect a higher portion of the EVs to be rapid charging are going to be more rural areas and they'll just upgrade that little bit to handle it.
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Yes, I do think that both issues will improve over time. Especially the expense when the charger situation is dealt with. Most trips are only a few miles a day, and the older EVs that did exist in the '80s could handle that just fine. And with the improved rate of charging in modern EVs, the chargers in rural areas mostly need to be close enough that you can skip one if it's broken. The big advantage that ICEs have is that you can more easily bring fuel to it if you have to. As much as it sucks having to walk for gas, it's at least a thing that can be done.
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Because you need domestic production to avoid a repeat of the OPEC created oil crisis of the '70s. Having the capacity overseas means that the producing countries have the ability to dictate what goes on here. Smaller countries have a smaller demand and aren't in the same position to have their own domestic production, but they're also in a better position to find somebody that's wiling to provide them with the vehicles they need. Whatever country builds the EVs that the US depends on is going to have us over a bucket, and the process may violate human rights and result in us continuing to fund countries with an iffy human rights record. This is especially going to be important if they can get sodium based battery capacities good enough to compete with lithium based batteries as there's a ton of sodium available, and given a possible need for desalination plants to provide drinking water in the future, diverting some of the excess sodium to battery production would help with the problem of disposing of the excess sodium that results from the water being removed.
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@cisium1184 Yes, a tariff is just a tariff. If no goods that are subject to the tariff are imported, then no tariffs are paid. However, it can even the playing field a bit if other countries are doing things like using slave labor. Although the WTO greatly reduced the amount of situations under which tariffs can be used to deal with various ways in which developing countries can undercut developed ones.
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