Where you live makes a big difference to viability of Teslas or any EV. The nearest Super Charger is 80 miles in Dundee or 90miles Inverness, promised for Aberdeen but when? My usual journeys I dont pass any sort of charger. An EV driver told me public chargers are free in Scotland except in Moray. Will otherwise sound EVs be scrapped because the battery is shot & a replacement is more than the car value. A dedicated network of EV battery recyclers will be needed.
Provision of chargers where there is demand is a significant business opportunity for someone. I can't see why the market wouldn't react to meet this need.
As for batteries, firstly the experience of EV users is that batteries are lasting far longer than originally expected, so there isn't a problem with cars having to be scrapped because the batteries have died prematurely, and secondly there is already a well- established network of EV battery recyclers, repurposing them into 2nd life storage -and the main challenge they have is actually getting hold of batteries because they are lasting so well in cars.
There are undoubtedly some disadvantages to EV ownership but it really doesn't help to keep trotting out these canards. Let's face it, we don't have a choice, life is going to be very different for all of us over the next 10 or 20 years and to imagine there's not going to be any progress in resolving remaining issues is hopelessly pessimistic. We may as well embrace the oppotunities the future will bring rathe rthan clinging on to an unsustainable past.
