Lot of things you guys are missing. Like transport of humans via rail. Many of us live in rural areas. The US is just too big to make rail a reality across the country. Look at AMtrack. The only break even line is the DC to Boston corridor. The rest is subsidized. Pretty poor? You bet. The lines across the US are owned by Union Pacific, BNSF, NS and others. Amtrack pays to use them and have a very low priority. So it isn't very good service. In fact if you look at light rail and subway services across the country all operate on subsidies, some as much as 85 cents on the dollar. Yet we keep building/expanding them.
Just like EV's (electric vehicles) total EV's on the US roads today is 1.3 million. They been selling them for about 10 years. Last year 2019 they sold a little over 300,000 in the US. Not a huge seller when new vehicle sales were over 17 million last year. Lot of downside. One you gotta recharge them. That puts more strain on an already over taxed electric grid where more power is produced via fossil fuels than any other source. Coal produces about 30% of that. Real environmentally friendly? Now look at renewable including hydro. Makes up less than 20% if and only if all wind and solar is producing a peak efficiency. NG is about 33% and nuke is about 20%. All others total about 16%, wind, solar, hydro and biomass. So right now? putting more strain on the power grid? Doesn't make sense.
The only new battery technology is Sulfur. And if that works out all it will do is replace Lithium. Same life and performance just cheaper. Right now the replacement cost of a Tesla's battery pack is about 7,000 dollars. Now they are claiming that they will run 300,000 to 500,000 miles but no one can or will prove that. Musk when ask about it won't answer. Most figure every 5 years or 60,000 miles. The solution to cold or hot weather conditions greatly reducing range is "don't run the heater or AC"? Heck when it's -30F how you supposed to see out the windshield?
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