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kleinbl00  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It’s time to make the call – fossil fuels are finished. The rest is detail.

C'mon, man, you're better than this.

Google tells me that there were 16 million cars sold last year. Inside EVs tells me that 160,000 of them were electric. That's one percent. Not a lot no matter how you look at it.

But these are durable goods we're talking about. The IRS depreciates cars over a 5 or 6 year period and for our purposes, EVs weren't even available until 2011. Compare and contrast: the first DVD player was introduced in 1996 and didn't match VHS sales until 2002... and DVDs cost $20, not $20k. There were under 20k electric car sales in 2011; in 2014 there were 320k. That's a 100% increase, year over year, every year. Tesla wasn't even a manufacturer five years ago and now you're arguing that because they aren't outselling the Corolla they never will.

If you can walk down to the dealership and see one on the showroom floor, it's mass-market. The difference with electric cars is there's likely to be a waiting list.





b_b  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Again, point well taken. I mainly just want to see the problem of recycling 20,000,000 large batteries addressed. I'm sure it's out there; I've just never come across it.

kleinbl00  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It ain't like we're talking lead acid, yo. all it takes is economics.