Back in the long ago, like just before the 2000s, there were people working on making large Lithium Ion batteries. The problem is, the larger you make them, the more likely they are to run into the condition of thermal run-away. A company in Canada, basically a concrete bunker with lots of expensive electronic test equipment tried to make large Lithium Ion batteries. The engineers working on this just walked away, there was nothing left of worth in that building.
The problem with the Lithium Ion structure is that output wants the ion more than the input. So, without stuff to keep this in check, the Lithium Ion battery wants to discharge. And the more it discharges, the more it is able to discharge. Heat is generated, and more heat means the process happens easier.
(In an opposite case, Lithium IRON (LiFePo) batteries, the input likes to keep the ions. It has to be coaxed to give it up. So, the LiFePo battery tends to just want to sit there without losing its charge)
Lately we have been hearing more and more about battery (and hybrid) powered vehicles catching on fire and taking out the surrounding areas (like a floor of a parking structure, or a cargo container ship). This seems really bad, and we should step away from this dangerous path. However, the mother WEFer owned media and congress keep pushing electric vehicles.
Clever Engineers Open the Door
Tesla motors (before Elon) build a large Lithium Ion battery. They did this buy putting a bunch of small Lithium Ion Batteries together in a big grid. They also put a charge controller on every individual battery. This small computer would take the battery off-line if it broke down, or got too hot. It was an ingenious system.
Unfortunately, after people got used to these things, people started ganging up Lithium Ion batteries without as many charge controlling computers. And some without any at all.
There was a cell phone with an extra large battery, for extra long talk times, and… it had problems with burning people's ears off.
So, we have a potential destructive catastrophe on our hands.
These things are very dangerous. They look just like batteries you can get at your local store, (and some are even for sale there) but these things have two huge potential problems. If water gets to the Lithium, it is explosive. And if the battery goes into a run-away state, it burns hot enough to melt steel.
The mother WEFers See Electric Vehicles as a Wet Dream
The evil people that want control saw the electric vehicle, and the self-driving electric vehicle as their dream come true.
The good, old fashioned gasoline powered vehicle with a carburator has almost no way to control it outside the vehicle. However, the electric vehicle, every piece of it is controlled by a microprocessor. And so, somebody with "authority" could take over that vehicle. All they had to do was have the manufacturer install a remote kill switch and what not into the vehicle.
In fact, just having the car tell the charger who it was before the charger would charge meant that the govern-cements could decide who could charge and who couldn't. Didn't update your tags? Well, no charge for you. Didn't pay some bill, to some legal entity, no charge for you.
And the Piece de resistance, with self driving, the car could drive the person to the authorities for appropriate "handling".
After this thought got out there, govern-cements around the world have been pushing battery powered electric vehicles. Every one of them is like no ICE by 2030 or some date that is way too soon. Enough EVs could not be made in that time for everyone to have one. Not even close.
But reality has never stopped a politician who knows what they want.
Electric vehicles are dangerous. Fires and electrocution are ever present dangers. Especially to emergency personnel.
Self driving vehicles are extremely dangerous. These programs still ignore bikes because they cannot map accurately where the bike will go. So, the computer acts as if it is not there. And thus, the lady walking the bicycle across the street was mowed down without the test car even touching the brakes.
The shipping of EVs has become too hazardous, and shippers are trying to get out of it.
Many auto manufacturers have decided to discontinue their electric vehicle lines. Stating they are too costly and not profitable.
People who have EVs are of two minds, love them and hate them. They are nice to drive. Smooth, quite, efficient. But, if you have to go far, you have to work in long stops along the way to recharge. And your mileage may change due to many conditions. So, the EV driver has this fear in the back of their minds about whether they will make it to their destination.
And, the insanity to beat all insanity! Charging stations out in the middle of nowhere, have diesel generators in them to charge your car. The thing EVs were designed to avoid… is what you have to do, if you want a charge.
But the govern-cement wants them badly, and keeps pushing them.
However, electric vehicles without batteries will be the vehicle of the future.
Unless we switch to flying cars first… or maybe flying saucers.
The future will be really fun.
(just got to keep govern-cement and their kill switches out of it)