>>513118382
Because it's a deeper problem with US cars as a whole, everything is a giant bloated SUV or faggy pickup truck. Also since car manufacturers love making everything proprietary you can't get aftermarket batteries for most older EVs.
>>513119047
>Unironically there was a truck maker in Canada that was doing neat shit with diesel generator hybrid trucks,
I've seen that, it's basically how modern diesel locomotives work. Pretty neat stuff imo.
>>513118770
boomer cope
>>513119475
only good point, and a lot of it comes from not having a unified standard for batteries and being unable to use aftermarket ones.
>>513118947
Sodium-ion batteries are interesting too, they have less capacity but are much cheaper to make and don't catch fire as you said.