One-ton batteries require a lot of energy to lug themselves around, and they’re expensive. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
EVs – as apologists for them never tire of pointing out – have fewer moving parts than vehicles with engines and transmissions and drive axles, etc. So why do EVs cost so much more (on the order of 30-40 percent more) than otherwise comparable vehicles with engines and transmissions and drive axles?
The reason is simple.
EVs are required by law to do what EVs aren’t able to do . . . without making them 30-40 percent more expensive than otherwise comparable vehicles with engines, transmissions and drive axles. That being capable of operating on highways at highway speeds.
If they aren’t capable of doing that, then it’s not legal to register/tag them as passenger vehicles and that renders them effectively useless, even as low-speed, short-range and low-cost cars – because even if the city car never leaves the city, the government of the city still requires that the car be registered and tagged, just like any other car.
The $25,000 great for the environment lithium battery pack or the most expensive virtue signal ever?
They need the Simpsons kid paint job on the queef mobiles…I’m making a difference by picking boogers.
Remove the subsidies for manufacturing EV’s and the carbon credits (a non-existent product) that are sold to the ICE manufactures and the price would be prohibitive for even the richest people who would have no need for an interesting toy to talk about at parties.
Chad
“Chadchadburn” nails it. Just imagine if the imaginary “revenue” the makers of EV’s did not benefit from, and the actual cost of manufacture and sale of them did not receive subsidies?
Then all the virtue signaling purchasers of these expensive toys would have to deal with the following inescapable fact. When politics declares war on physics, physics shall always remain undefeated!