Carmakers don’t need ‘EV divisions,’ the whole company should go electric now

I'd love to be able to get an EV, but it's a no go. Also, there are no electric family MPVs.

About 2/3 of US housing units have either a garage or carport; about 1/3 do not, and some carports (especially for units that aren’t detached single-family homes) are detached overhead shelters without electrical infrastructure not convenient to connect to the panel for the home.

You can't just replace one thing with another. Replacing gas pumps with fast charger alone has a ton of problems. The most obvious is even the fastest charging EV charges slower than even a land whale SUV can fill its tank.

I've seen few gas stations with a layout such that someone parked at a pump for 20 minutes wouldn't cause a huge traffic problem both at the station and spilling into the street.

Then you've got to route a high voltage power line right by gas pumps and tanks. Typically at a gas station you want to minimize ignition sources.

Then there's getting enough power to the station itself. If the station doesn't have the right power running to it, say it's only on a single phase power. Tesla doesn't just plop super charger stations just anywhere.

Because charging takes a while charging stations tend to be sited near actual destinations while gas stations are sites at intersections and freeway off ramps. No one will want to use a charger at a gas station and be stuck with only a couple vending machines for food and drink.

It's a better investment to put EV charger at locations a car would reasonably sit for a half hour or more like a parking garage/lot.

Those designs can then be sold for at least another decade. I hope by 2040 there is little demand for combustion vehicles...

Allowed? Who put you in charge?

I don't doubt that sabotage happens inside dysfunctional organizations. There are plenty of stories of internal sabotage. However, I don't know of any evidence that this is either a widespread occurrence between ICE and EV divisions or that this is a problem inside specific automakers.

If I'm an automaker, I'm going to root for all of my competitors to drop internal combustion immediately and have it all to myself.

Also of course the customers aren't there. EV sales in Japan is 2% of the market, 7% in the US, 15% in Europe and China. Makes no sense to drop everything and ignore 90% of your consumers.

To accommodate the larger loads from charging EVs landlords will need larger grid hookups. They’re expensive and utilities don’t just give those out, they build them to sell you more electricity. If none of your tenants own EVs (yet), the utility will still want compensation for their investment regardless. Who provides that is not answered nationally, but by state utility commissions.

There’s lots of parties involved to answer the EV infrastructure question, electrical coops, investor owned utilities, property management companies, utility boards, local, state, and national governments. They all have vastly different incentives and electric car users need them all to walk in lock step to provide adequate EV infrastructure. I don’t see that happening without a serious public mandate, and visionary charismatic leadership.

Wind generators look like prices are somewhere around a dollar per watt of maximum output once you get beyond low end ~400W outputs. So again you're looking at 10s of thousands of dollars in hardware.

Both Solar and Wind are not continuous generators, so you'll need batteries, which for a reasonable capacity you're looking at more than 10k.

There are micro hydro generators but they all require a reasonable head and flow, and the way they throw around generation figures I couldn't work out when they were talking maximum output vs cumulative output over a day, month, or year (TBF this is a common problem with all discussions I can find about home power generation).

Geothermal generators are out of the question, they're not generally available, and there's no real small scale story that generates power in "I have an EV" quantities that I can find.

https://thedriven.io/2023/07/06/customer-resistance-volkswag...

Not everyone lives in a city, and if they did the nation would cease to function.

Most of the water goes to agriculture, much of it not well suited to the climate. Most of the rest is for non-functional grass (won’t ever be used, just to look at).

This will all fix itself sooner or later.

And how are EVs more efficient then standard cars if they have less range and don’t work as well in certain climates and can’t go where the electricity is not readily available?

We are already polluting the environment by burning stuff for electricity, how does any of this help?

And where to we get all the chemicals for the batteries and what do we do with them when they are useless?