Electric cars are undoubtedly better for the environment. However there are tons of problems with them in terms of practicality. At least if you’re the kind of guy who maybe once in a blue moon wants to drive 200 miles to an event and then 200 miles back in the evening because it’s something you really wanted to do; well with an electric car you can forget it. Not unless you have somewhere to park it that has a charger in the intervening period between the two trips.
and it has to be a rapid charger not just an ordinary plug socket. Just plugging in at your house will take hours and hours to get a full charge.
There was a very simple solution to this problem of a long amount of time it takes to charge your battery which was simply to make electric cars battery changeable. A lot of Electric cars already have a sales model where you rent the battery. it would’ve been a very easy thing to pass a law making it so that every electric cars battery needs to be easily removable and swappable with a generic standard. so instead of filling up with petrol at the pump you could have a machine lift your car off the ground (The batteries are usually mounted on the base of the car) swap out the battery with a pre charged one and pay a nominal fee for the difference in the electricity. Charged battery in five or 10 minutes instead of several hours
but this would’ve required the government to a make Electric car batteries a government monopoly and make them responsible for putting in the infrastructure to do this.
also a personal note I like driving a manual. I like having clutch control. Electric cars are all automatic. they could’ve at least done the courtesy of putting in a fake clutch that we could use for fine control and Station keeping when we want to move a car forwards or backwards a couple of inches precisely or make it hang on a hill without slamming on the break. It’s the way I’m used to controlling a car and I see no reason why they couldn’t of emulated that in an electric car system.
