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It is funny, that this idea that electrically driven vehicles will not work for every situation. There were similar arguments made about fuel powered vehicles over horses 100 years ago. And seemed to hold true until WW2.
In the span of 50 years, the ICE was developed until it was far superior in all most all metrics that it was silly to think that a horse would out perform any ICE truck or other vehicle. Farm equipment, transportation, even logging switched over from horses (where you would think the remoteness, the removal from readily available fuel source, etc would have kept horses as a much better means of transportation).
Funny how those same arguments are being used for why electrically driven vehicles will not work for construction or some other specific use case... If an EV semi (tractor-trailer) can go 100+ miles pulling 50,000 lbs, why would EVs not be able to pull 20,000 lbs 400+ miles?
Unless hydrogen or fuel cell technologies become cheaper and much more efficient, I just do not see them competing with the advances coming with batteries. I am not saying that there could not be some advancement that causes fuel cells to become suddenly cheaper or more efficient, just that it does not look that way now.
And I realize that unless a society makes it a priority to remove ICE vehicles from the road, they will be around for many years to come.
If the promises of solid state batteries are only half as good, it will be a huge game changer and energy storage will become lighter, more dense, and probably give vehicles the range desired.
Just my thoughts.
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