[Fozzie_DeBear]

Originally Posted by Stormageddon

I am digging up reasons, but not because I don't think we need to move off fossil fuels eventually. I just don't see how ev's are the answer unless there is a humongous breakthrough in battery technology, both capacity and service life. People in rural areas can not rely on ev's full time. This is more where agriculture is concerned. The new technology needs to replicate the convenience of gas/diesel pretty much exactly. A farmer can't be sitting around waiting for his combine to charge in the fall and hope the weather doesn't turn to crap.

Even for my job. Let's say it's winter and I need to take the bucket truck to do some major work over many hours. How does the battery last long enough for something like that. Or even if I need to come down and warm up, what happens then? There are many scenarios that need to be gone through, to me.

I think I'm really straying this thread off the path now, so I'd better not go any further.

The point not to lose track of is that, it's not that EV's will replace all vehicles in all situations, it's that enough EV's become mainstream and change in demand for hydrocarbons. This will disrupt the economy of oil producing regions.