To my understanding a lot of these electric vehicles are actually super powerful/torque heavy. Look into the electric vehicles from Rivian for instance. Super capable, very interesting, but the range is reportedly nowhere near what they claim. Rivian is insanely expensive too. Who knows about the long term reliability.
Yes, EV's can output an insane amount of torque (nowhere close to
steam engines, but still a lot) but that torque takes power, meaning the battery life of these "trucks" is going to reduce drastically when towing anything substantial.
I am off grid, so that doesn't affect me, but these vehicles take so much power that we would have to upgrade our set-up substantially in order to be able to even use one. Even then you still have to worry about the car batteries degrading which is super expensive. There are a lot of problems overall with electric.
It's a pretty terrible means of transportation on the front of cost and longevity. The technology still isn't there yet, especially compared to tried-and-true combustion engines. And it's not just a personal, home setup needing an overhaul to handle the extra kilowatts; California recently asked its residents to refrain from charging their EV's because of the risk to the power grid. The infrastructure isn't even there yet to handle widespread ownership of EV's.
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