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Much more than that is left. Weight, performance and reliability in cold winters and slave labour in Africa. Weight is critical in some areas particularly on traffic queues on bridges, multistory car parks and road maintenance. Long cold winters so far have not been good for electric cars. The final moral point I would have thought trumps the lot but very few seem to care.

Oh yes I do remember sitting with friends comparing the slave labour involved in making my Sierra Cosworth. 
I remember saying mine had less copper than the Lancia delta. 

The thing is it is much more out in the open now and is well known. In terms of morality you have to pay it attention or not as the case may be. If you do not then the moral high ground is not yours to take even on the pretext of saving the planet.

None of the serious issues have been resolved - nor is there much prospect they will be in the foreseeable future.

You talk about 'range anxiety' as if the problem is solved simply by having a slightly longer range for BEVS. The thing is 'range anxiety' is just a driver centred description of the problem - ie how the driver experiences the problem.

The real problem is

1) The relationship between range and recharge times
AND
2) The relationship between recharge times and the capacity of the grid to provide power.
AND
3) The relationship between recharge times and battery life
AND
4) the relationship between battery life and cost

This is an intractable problem with just 1 and 2, firstly because the first relationship is not going to change by the order of magnitude needed to provide a reasonable utility, and secondly, because adjusting the second relationship means substantially updating the electric grid - a project that is likely to take a century or more. Even IF you solve the 1st problem (which you can't) you just become subject to the second bottleneck (back to square one)

Somebody highlighting these relationships and their interlocked nature is not 'moving the goal-posts', they are explaining to you why there is an intractable problem.

The one good point you make is that for some drivers and use cases, BEVS are fine. (i don't think anyone doubts this much)

im still waiting to hear how the good people of planet zany plan to charge the EV family car of the mac Innes  family from their top floor 6 th storey flat in cowcaddens off Glasgow city centre?

 ...but hey , why let all these little impracticalities get in the way the way of saving the universe from mother natures natural variation in weather?

 You know , I was always convinced climate change was a natural event presented as a problem that needed a solution . Now im convinced it's all Sharon with the big tits fault at number 47 for dropping her kids off at school in the four by four.

After having consulted zany from the planet zogg , ive therefore come to the conclusion I need to sell the family diesel , rip out the gas boiler , and spend the rest of my life wrapped in an old itchy army blanket for warmth and comfort dining on bread and water for the good of the universe.

im feeling positively self righteous about my decision .

 

 

Yes the inhabitants of planet Zany who support EVs right up to the point of buying one .
Who post an example EV that few could afford to refute an example that most can afford.
They purposely ignore reality and wonder why they are mocked .

I dont think we see a day go by when zany isnt on his virtue signalling crusade about something or other , from his ivory tower ,until us mere mortals start asking questions and reality bites.