buy brand new carThe only reason that EV's are not the better option in all cases is because the whole Charging part of the roll out has been Bungled.
The Europeans have the right idea for the future. You drive the car up to a Charging station and a door opens up below the car and a device removes your dead battery pack and replaces it with a fully charged one. You are in and out within about 3 minutes.
No other system will work unless charging times drop down to under 10 Minutes.
I was listening to some analysis on the current disaster with charging stations and what could be the best outcome with the current tech.
If we built out the system using the current system the numbers showed that we would need so many charging stations in a large city that it would be impossible to accomplish it. Also the lost Productivity of people waiting to get a charge would cost the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Basically it just cannot work!
In order for EV's to make the next leap the Charging time has to decrease to under 10 Minutes or we change the system completely and start making vehicles with Packs that can be removed and replaced in under 5 minutes. In both cases it still requires that lot more charging stations have to be built and standards on Battery packs have to be set.
drive it a few days and drive to your buddy's house
go to charge it on your drive back home
get someones 20 year old battery
don't make it home and get stranded in the middle of aussie desert
kangaroo comes and beats you up
not to mention the maintenance nightmare of the machines lifting those batteries constantly