re: Would you ever consider buying a electric car

No.

Maybe one day if they are fairly priced and can satisfy all of my needs for a car. Right now? No.

Absolutely

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The technology will just continue to improve along with battery life.

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Do you have anything substantial to show that would make anyone believe this?

Your AAA and AA and D batteries were developed over 100 years ago. They have made one advancement in them in those 100+ years. They switched from Zinc-Carbon to the common Alkaline batteries of today, and that was done in 1960.
Lithium-ion batteries came around in the 70's, but weren't commercially made until 1991. Since then, they've improved their performance about three fold, which is really good.
But like with any battery, it's only as good as the material you are using, and that material has a limitation. We aren't going to get much more out of Lithium-ion batteries than we are right now.
A new technology has to come around, and it's quite obvious that we really suck at coming up with a way to effectively store and release energy when you go back and look at the history of batteries.


the solution for our energy storage problem can't be that we put these gigantic lithium-ion battery banks in our vehicles, and just add more when we want longer battery life. There needs to be a new invention when it comes to battery storage and until then i'm not buying an electric vehicle. They are already expensive as hell, and they basically become a throw away item. Once the battery goes bad, you basically have nothing of value for your car. I can still resell a 10 year old toyota for $15k+. Will these electric cars even last 10 years with this battery technology? if my phone battery is any indication of that, then it won't come close.

I’m ambivalent to electric vehicles specifically.

With that said, what I CANT STAND is not only the progressive lefts demonic obsession with attempting to force them down our throats, but doing so while actively working to sabotage internal combustion engine vehicles.

They know that without forcing their hand on the scale that the technology won’t take hold like they want.

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I'm sure there will come a point where you won't have much of a choice but until that happens not a chance

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I could be wrong, but I would be surprised of gas vehicles would completely go away..

I won't get one until they change to the new solid state batteries I keep reading about.

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Would you ever consider buying a electric car

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I've bought 2 of em.

Would I ever consider, sure. But not the current gen of electrics. There are multiple battery technologies like graphene, solid state, nanowire etc. that are being developed. If one of them manages to be scalable, can hit a broad market and live up to their promise, they'll simply be a better choice from a usability standpoint.

The big factors against the current gen of battery and EV's in general is weight, charge time and the amount of waste they produce and the larger impact they have in manufacturing. You have to mine 500,000 pounds of material for every 1,000 pound battery produced. Essentially, every EV comes new with 60,000 miles worth of CO2 as compared to a ICE car. With that factored in as well as their price, it's not a good proposition. One thing you have to be mindful of as well, is the charging capacity of the car. A lot of the GM EVs have a very slow charging capacity. Even if you're on a fast charging station, it'll still take an hour or more for your 250 miles of range.

If a battery tech like graphene can make it to scale, it'll be a no-brainer to make the switch. Graphene wouldn't need as much meaning, would be very light in comparison and charge much faster. At that point the tradeoffs wouldn't be as severe and adoption would be rapid.

When we crest the weight and charge time barriers that the current gen EV's have, I'll be in the market. That time is most likely 15-20 years away and I don't live in a state where they are mandating it, so I'm sticking to gas for now.

Tesla battery 8rs 100K mi warranty.

Tesla drive unit 4yr 50K mi. Not uncommon to fail and not cheap.