Juneau, Alaska, made one of their city busses an EV. And the cold would drop the battery range enough that it couldn’t finish the route. I live in a place that is colder than Juneau and am concerned about battery range/life. I have 2 friends who own Teslas and both of them have stated that they lost about 20-25% of their range in cold months.
The batteries in EVs are a real problem if they catch fire. The fires are not extinguishable like a normal car fire.
Here’s a warning for the Chevy Bolt:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/gm-a...ther-cars.html
Here’s a warning for Hyundai Kona:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/29/2...ery-fire-nhtsa
There is a real problem with disposing of the batteries in EVs right now. Very hard to recycle and can’t really use them for parts like you can with a gasoline engine, not to mention that many of the batteries require rare earth materials that are only available from China or countries that we do not like.
I agree the technology is promising but I am going to wait for a few of the issues to be worked out before I consider one.