Everyone can get an EV without breaking the power grid, actually the opposite, everyone getting an EV would make the powergrid more stable.

I don’t see how it isn’t. We’re talking about batteries replacing fossil fuels for energy storage. You’re the one who brought cars into this. Car haters are so focused on them that they forget they’re only something like 15% of consumption. (We’d have solid numbers, but it’s literally illegal for the EPA to break the…

As someone who has spend decades researching things like this, I guarantee you it is NOT a myth. Even things like Moore’s law was a byproduct of pushing investment, without it Moore’s law would never have happened.

It engages and disengages via lever that is used for cruise control. But you can also take over the wheel.

What you are asking for is impossible. The Google system is driven by people in-house. And via LIDAR they can run simulations and etc. Such things are impossible on a system used by the public with no LIDAR. You simply can not get those numbers. On top of that you have 0 way of knowing for what reason a person took…

The current statistics already includes how people consider autopilot. So there is no reason to claim that the statistics are inaccurate, because all of that is already included.

You mean 1.5 for the average driver, not the Tesla. (backwards)

That depends on what you consider “long term solution”. Aka the time frame. In time batteries will be replaced by other solutions like super capacitors and the like, but you are talking about maybe in 50 years. Batteries are more than capable of meeting our demands until then.

Are you volunteering to give me billions of dollars to become a billionaire like Elon?

For automotive use, the biggest issue is energy density by volume. But to be clear, the equation is energy density by volume * efficiency. And in that regard, lithium ion is pretty close. Within 10 years lithium ion(incremental improvements without any breakthroughs) will match gasoline in energy density when…

You are correct, but since statistics do not look at individual causes of fault, the lookout is mostly based on general probability.

To be clear, the statistics size is based on miles traveled. Considering it is within the calculations of it happening, the same size is fine. And as the system gets updated it will continue to improve.

That is nonsense. The majority of people can most definitely charge at home. In the US for example, based on census data only 13% of households are apartments. Which means majority of people in the US at the very least is private housing.

But as mentioned, flow batteries lack energy density. And even if you had a flow battery that was not corrosive, harmful or rare earth, it would still require more maintenance.

Of course something that is dominant is going to reserve the largest amount of investment, and as time goes new technology takes its place. That is a normal transition period, Ford did not start out with a Model T either. So in same way Model S -> Model 3. It is a matter of time, at that point we seem to agree.

They do, but the applications were limited, especially during the world wars which saw a lot of government investment.

I don’t care how much you get paid to troll just an fyi.

1 single accident that lead to death, pretty sure I was clear about that. But even when you are talking about overall accidents, it is still less than the accident rate of an average car.

You are joking right? The government has spent a lot of money investing into ICE. (mostly due to potential use for war)

What impasse? The impasse that lithium ion is just too good for other technologies to beat at the moment?