So an uninformed post is punishable by insults and strawmans. 🤔 I came here to be enlightened. It’s also fun that I stopped watching the progress of EVs for 10+ years only to find out they changed drastically in ways I wasn’t expecting(1,500 lbs batteries).

And it’s a leg injury, recent. D:

That actually sounds like the best possible setup for a car, the best of both worlds of electric and combustion engines.

When I made this post, I didn’t realize EV battery sizes had increased exponentially, I would have assumed the size stayed the same and capacity increased x10 by now.

Very interesting, I’ll remember this for when/if I ever do get an EV.

Just in case there is no city along the way with EV supporting infrastructure(or if it’s during a time when there’s an overload on the electrical grid and any city or state you stop in during a trip prevents you from charging due to electrical issues).

Although, when I asked the question, I wasn’t being too serious, just talking funny hypotheticals.

I didn’t know there where internal combustion engines that could go 1000 miles. Ah, so your EV has a 100 mile range and charges quick anyway? So the days of waiting overnight for a full charge from 13 years back are over I presume?

Ah, nice to see that EVs have come a long way since the early 2010s. Glad I didn’t get one then since 30 was the best they’d get. I was gonna ask if newer batteries could be installed into old EVs, but now that I know the weight increased to give EV batteries capacity, seems like a bad idea.

I’m still living in the past(2010) when people made their own EVs out of gas cars and batteries could be picked up by a single human. What a plot twist that batteries increased in size to increase battery life instead of increasing in capacity while staying a small size.

I’m wondering what other “advancements” have been made in the EV field since then.

Well, as revealed in this very thread, somebody did in fact make their own DIY workaround to this problem. lol

That’s a plot twist I didn’t see coming, last time I saw an EV battery in the early 2010s(from a custom car) it was still at a weight that a person could pick up with both hands. (That’s all I remember, and why somebody was able to rotate battery packs for long drives.)