Anecdote trumps data for humans. But the data are what matters, or at least what ought to matter. Crime stats are a classic example.

Do that a lot in an ICE car and you’re going to fuck up something a lot more pricey than the gas tank. You’ll wear out your engine internals, your clutch or transmission, your cooling systems and your turbochargers. All those problems are much worse if the car is cold. I’m told it gets quite cold in Canada.

Meantime, you can put your foot down in an LFP EV as much as you like and there’ll be no appreciable impact on range over time. A 300+ mile LFP EV is going to be good for some ridiculous number of miles before it hits 80% SoH. 3000 cycles is probably a significant underestimate, so that’s 900k+ miles. Even allowing for calendar ageing, there’s going to be bugger all meaningful degradation in any reasonable timeframe.

Yup to all of that

They will never work quite like an ICE because they are different. They’ll never charge quite as fast, but in addition to their many current advantages, they will eventually have longer range than an ICE.

They are better because they support a wider range of driving styles. If you want to zoom around town moving quickly off the mark when the lights change, EVs are better than ICE; if you want to drive delicately because you’re moving your dead in-laws’ crockery from their flat to your house, EVs are also better than ICE. I speak from experience with both those things.

There’s one other thing, too: while you definitely *can* drive your EV like a race car, it’s also much easier to drive it like an old granny than it is in an ICE car, because the acceleration is so linear: push on the gas very gently and the car accelerates slowly and steadily with no lurching up to whatever speed you want; take your foot off the gas and it either smoothly brings itself to a halt via regen or coasts slowly to a stop (my preferred method)

It’s also the case that this whole “but EVs are heavier” thing is just obvious bullshit, and that many of the people who say it are proud owners of massive SUVs and trucks that they really don’t need, and could swap for smaller & lighter cars without any trouble.

I live not too far from a big bus station here in the UK (Golders Green). About 70% of the bus lines operating from here are now EVs, and the remainder are all hybrid and tend to run on battery when in and around the station. The cab rank outside now mainly has LEVC EREVs which run on battery the vast majority of the time. And increasing amounts of the passing traffic are EVs too. It's substantially less smelly and the air is cleaner than five years ago, and it's also much quieter. Hampstead, St John's Wood and Marylebone are rife with Taycans and other pricey EVs, and again, the air is very obviously cleaner and less stinky, and the roads are much quieter, at least until some tit in a Lambo decides to rev their engines on a high street to impress themselves and their long-suffering partner.

All the above anecdote, of course, but it matters to me because I am personally experiencing the benefits, as is my family. And its backed up by the air quality monitoring carried out by London's local government. ULEZ has helped massively too.

Thank you for your patience in replying to this nonsense. It's worth pointing out that brake dust is more dangerous both because the particles are smaller and because they are metallic (or ceramic). The small size makes it easier for them to enter the bloodstream.

It's also important to note that PM2.5 from exhausts are also present in quantities high enough to damage human health for ICE vehicles. Diesel filters are better than nothing but don't help much when it comes to cold starts and can be defective.

Jobs was undoubtedly very self-assured and possibly a narcissist, although he public apologised for various fuckups several times, which is not something narcissists do. But there are too many stories of his insight and acuity to dismiss him as someone who only knew how to yell at people in the workplace.

i always remember the impression he made on me when i first watched a Tesla keynote he did, years and years ago. I remember thinking to myself "how can he be so shit at this compared to Jobs?" I know Steve Jobs was a phenomenal presenter, but Musk was just such a *shit* presenter. I couldn't believe that other people thought he was good at it.

We've all got first-hand knowledge of that because he keeps saying and doing things in public that confirm it. We don't need to have direct access to someone's inner mind to make reasonable inferences about their motivations. It's a completely normal thing to do, and you do it all the time, because humans can't function without it.

Wh/kg or Wh/l is energy density, not power density. Power density is W/kg or W/l. It depends on internal resistance, ion mobility and electrode design. Sodium cells have better ion transport at low temperature than LFP and don't have the plating risk.

I don’t disagree, but I think it’s going to be coming in markets outside the US first. Asia, emerging markets, then Europe — where small cars truly are small, and in particular where a small car is a big step up from a bike or a moped only.

Ironically, the OP has it the wrong way round. Sodium has better power density than LFP, by and large, although NMC is still better. It has lower energy density, which means it won’t be in premium EV traction batteries except in hybrid Na-Li double batteries any time soon. But it’s well suited for aux batteries that need a big surge of power and cold-start capabilities.