If you drink the electric kool-aid it’s fine. But reality is it’s not that great....small children overseas are mining for the lithium batteries and getting sick from it. The lithium mining breaks ground up and releases toxic chemicals into the drinking water, ground, and air where it’s mined and hurts locals. We have found no efficient way to dispose of lithium batteries besides throwing them in a landfill or burying them. Batteries and electric motors are very heavy and reduce a vehicles payload significantly, particularly a problem for trucks.
In applications where the engine is loaded up at all times (boats, heavy equipment) you need an extremely high weight in batteries in comparison to an ICE power plant and they run down faster without the equivalent range. The reality is lithium ion batteries suck, they are yesterdays news and we need something better.
In applications where the engine is loaded up at all times (boats, heavy equipment) you need an extremely high weight in batteries in comparison to an ICE power plant and they run down faster without the equivalent range. The reality is lithium ion batteries suck, they are yesterdays news and we need something better.