[MrBeast]

Do small EV's have a place?

The answer I would say to that is YES!

Will EV trucks and Semi's ever be mainstream? NO!

This all boils down to an energy density problem.

Batteries are heavy, and needing to charge batteries takes time.

Small electric cars are great for cities when you need a vehicle to travel further than you can walk, but will be returning to a home base, especially in areas where real estate is super expensive but electrical plugs are everywhere.

That being said, the further you get from city centers, the less practical they become.

The other issue is that the further from the equator you get the less practical an EV is because once you get into a place that has freezing temperatures, that EV battery must be kept warm, which requires even more power.

The other problem is that EV's rely heavily on the use of rare earth metals, and quite a bit of lithium. Which makes them expensive, and as the demand rises, it will get even more expensive.

The other problem is that the cars themselves use a lot of copper and aluminum, as well upgrading the grid to support them is going to require vast amounts of copper and aluminum, which is going to exponentially increase the cost of these materials which are already expensive.

Then we get to the issue of power generation, we simply do not have the power generation to make it all work and getting there is going to require building hundreds of new power plants, and unless people really warm up to the idea of nuke plants, we will never get there.

At the end of the day EV's as a small car make sense, they are light weight, can travel a reasonable distance, and can get most people in an urban center where they need to go and can help reduce localized pollution IF there is a non carbon power source available.

The idea that we will see them being used in the truck market with any kind of success is just silly and absurd.