[quote=scaredyclassic]Then, environmentally, it sounds like we are making giant pieces of junk for the landfills pretty soon. Big giant obsolete computers with wheels.
There’s so much energy embedded already in my 2012 Accord, it’d take a lot of e vehicle driving to offset it. Driving an electric vehicle is probably no environmental good, at least in my case.
Maybe the best thing all around is just a cheap sedan. Hyundai Elantra. Lease it.[/quote]
That was always my concern about electric cars. With traditional older combustion engines, they have been developed to a point where if something breaks, you can replace parts on it. And even when someone doesn’t want to deal with the repairs anymore on a car, there’s usually someone that will take a used car and either fix it up or chop it up into parts to keep something else running.
EV cars are much more difficult to do this. Yes, there are companies that can take a Tesla battery back and diagnose and replace specific cells that aren’t working. But this would be an out-of-warranty and strongly discouraged repair by Tesla. And it’s not just Tesla that will have this issue. Every EV car.
I’m not sure EV really are the end all solution to polution.
But even modern ICE cars have so much electronics, that it’s hard to keep them running if electronics fail.
I was hoping we’d get back to point where we have a “back to basics” cult where you just have much simplier cars for basic transportation and not continueously trying to turn cars in to computers.
