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Originally Posted by NotGolfer
What people don't stop and think about is...."where does electricity come from?" You have to have power to make power and that comes from (gasp) oil!!! Also what to do with ALL those batteries when you want to throw them out? Not too "green" now. Wouldn't be enough charging stations to serve all who can afford to buy these things. I'll stick with my "gas-driven" car!!
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Tesla is already recycling, they are not thrown out.
You are right, tomorrow there will not be enough to change 300 million EVs - that is how many ICE vehicles are on the road. Tesla will be trying to reach 1 million EVs sold this year, and 2 million next year. At that rate it will take decades to completely replace ICE with EV. And at that rate, there is plenty of time to build out an infrastructure to support them.
We have to start someplace. NO one can afford to build out super chargers to support 300 million EVs. There has to be revenue generated to pay for it. That is what Tesla is doing now, building. GM, Ford, et al, will have a LOT of catching up to do, since they need to produce batteries and decide how and where they get charged. That is also whey there is no practical CHEAP EV. All the EVs have to have a high enough profit margin to pay for the buildout.
What the government could do is force various companies making EVs to have compatible charing ports, so no one has to build all the charging stations for themselves.