Me feels that the OP was a Troll who has since found other victims.
However, there are a few things I want to point out for the sake of perspective.
The electric motor is be far the best device known to man for the task of moving a vehicle (and many other things). The main two reasons are torque curve and efficiency.
We prefer diesels in our buses because of the low-end torque. How is this for low end torque (solid blue curve):
View attachment TorqueEfficiency.pdf
Full torque at zero rpm. Exactly when we need the most torque. The example shown is a motor from an electric motorcycle. 18kW (~24 hp) does not sound much but that bike is VERY lively due to the way the torque is delivered.
On the other end of the power spectrum we have diesel-electric locomotives. The mechanical hacks we use in cars, trucks, and buses like clutches, torque converters and gearboxes to accommodate the need of an ICE to rev while the vehicle is standing still or barely moving would be prohibitively complicated and expensive at power levels of over 3000hp and a vehicle (train) mass measured in thousands of tons. So the diesel engine in the locomotive drives a generator and the current is then fed in a controlled way to the electric motors driving the wheels. Again, maximum torque at 0 rpm.
The reason why this conversion from mechanical energy to electric and back to mechanical is still economical becomes obvious in the second graph of the attached datasheet. Electric motors and generators have efficiencies of over 90%. Compare that to a measly 20-40% thermal efficiency of an ICE.
Not surprisingly, electric cars were
among the first automobiles but could not be made practical due to the lack of batteries with sufficient energy density.
One (1) gallon of gasoline weighing about 6 pounds contains approximately 33kWh (kilo Watt hours) of energy, which is roughly 1/3 the capacity of a state-of-the-art Tesla S battery weighing about 1200 lbs. No wonder that we were willing to put up with the abysmal efficiency of the ICE and its anemic low-end torque for over two centuries. No big oil conspiracy needed to explain this, just physics.
However, when the paradigm shifts, like when reasonably potent batteries are becoming a commodity, we should keep our minds open and reap the benefits of the emerging opportunities. Unfortunately, at that point there were massive corporate interventions to maintain the status quo in order to get more profit from technologies headed for obsolescence. Additionally, the prevalence and popularity of ICEs made us forget that they are a very inefficient hack to get around electric energy storage challenges.
I am anything but a tree hugger or environmental socialist but when I took the first ride in a Tesla S almost 5 years ago my first thought was "Holy smoke" and my second thought was that anyone spending the same coin on an ICE driven car would be a luddite and a fool.
And that was just the beginning of the excitement opportunities electric drives would offer in a car. Then came
700+hp, 1000Nm of torque and independent torque control of all wheels.
German rally ace Walter Röhrl spoke after a test drive about a "new dimension" of vehicle performance and felt blessed to have experienced this in his lifetime. (Translation of the actual words spoken is his Bavarian accent "Do leckst mi om Oasch" during the first few hundred meters is not suitable for the office.) This from a guy who has seen the best of the best in ICE and suspension technology during his career.
Yes, there are many folks out there who are sadly mistaken that electric vehicles will bring upon us dancing Unicorns under a flower-studded rainbow but that should not tempt anyone else to doubt or deny the measurable benefits of this technology.
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