Electric vehicles are a scam in my opinion. They have an expiry date where once it hits, the car will require thousands to be spent to replace the batteries. <br><br>Those new batteries begin the cycle again where you will need to mine and refine the materials creating even more pollution.<br><br>Old petrol and diesel cars could are still on the road after 30 or 40 years with proper maintenance. I highly doubt electric cars will still be under their 4th battery pack at that point or even on the road at all.,(reply>), @DeanoGTO Hydrogen is massively expensive to get though. Yes, it's the most abundant element in the universe, but it isn't readily available on Earth. Steam Methane reforming is the cheap way to do it, but is incredibly dirty, while hydrolysis requires mass amounts of energy because breaking apart water takes an ungodly amount of power. I'm not saying it isn't going to be the future, but there's serious work to go into power generation before we get to that point (and you can't just use hydrogen generation, because it takes more energy to split than it releases by burning), and hydrogen combustion still releases NOx into the local environment so is not a silver bullet.<br><br>It's a lot easier and more practical to adopt electric (with the promise of zero emissions and next to no "fuel" costs), and then when the renewable infrastructure has developed to support that level of electrical consumption, make the switch to hydrolysis (because if the power is generated renewable, then the hydrogen is renewable). <br><br>I think people get it twisted by thinking of Hydrogen like a fossil fuel that is harvested, when really it's a storage medium. Instead of using electricity to charge a battery and store electrical energy, you use it to generate hydrogen to store chemical energy.,(reply>), @DeanoGTO don't own a car. Problem solved.,(reply>), @DeanoGTO All tech goes this route, hell almost every consumer product does to feed the capitalist worms. How else would they make more profits if people stick with things for so long?,(reply>), @Inshaneity my car is 22 years old,(reply>), @Inshaneity Every car I've owned has been over 6 years old. My current car is 12. Buying an electric car that is a decade old with batteries on the verge of wearing out is a poor decision. It's guaranteed cost of thousands and there's no preventative maintenance for batteries.<br><br>My current phone is 3 and a half years old, I would probably keep it for another two years if I could get good replacement parts. I know I'm in the minority but it's a waste to have a phone that works fine but most people throw their old phones away and get new ones. I think cars are heading in this direction.