Hurrah for cheap solutions!

It doesn't matter how you repackage it. It will still have no future, except for true believers who will follow electric cars like lemmings over a cliff.

Electric cars use energy produced mainly by coal-fired and oil-fired electric generating plants, and when one compares the energy used to charge them versus the fuel required to generate that power, electric cars average less than 40 mpg. So that means they generate more CO2 than almost every hybrid, and almost twice as much as the most efficient gasoline powered production vehicle.

Secondly, there has not been a significant increase in charge density in batteries for 50 years. And the fact that lead-acid batteries are already 75% efficient, and that no battery can ever reach 100%, means that the best that any battery will ever achieve will be a charge density only a few percent greater than today's technology. For electric cars to ever become viable, they must have batteries with more than twice the charge density. That will never happen. That makes battery technology advancements the second biggest investment scam in history.

Third, the most efficient batteries invented - lithium batteries, still have a serious explosion risk, for a very slim charge density advantage over lead-acid batteries.

Finally, almost all batteries depend on child labor to produce the raw materials. The "me" generation that wants to virtue signal their goodness by owning electric cars, seems not to care.