EVs don’t quite live up to government promises. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
One of the interesting – one of the telling – things about EVs is they’re not designed to be efficient. In fact, they are designed very specifically to be the opposite.
For the sake of something else.
Consider the EVs that serve as the role models for almost all other EVs. Tesla EVs. Every model ever made by Tesla emphasizes inefficiency for the sake of performance, which has been Tesla’s main “sell” since the company first began converting Lotus high-performance cars into electric cars some 15 years go.
The argument put forward – then and now – was that few people (not enough to make it profitable to build them) would be interested in an efficient electric car. Such a car would of necessity need to be small, light – and slow.
