Battery Fatigue
Did you know that the biggest obstacle and expense for electric cars is battery technology? How dumb is that! As an idiot 4 year-old I could tell you that batteries didn’t last long enough and were too expensive. And today batteries aren’t going into small plastic dinos that trip over the shag and make you curse Christmas.
If you have kids you know the aggravation that comes standard with every battery purchase. You know they won’t last long, they’re expensive and the rechargeable alternatives seem to either drain too fast, or only give you about a dozen charges before providing the power equal to a sock-over-carpet shock. They need all sorts of batteries, many of which you can’t get at the supermarket. Besides the standards for their Wii controllers, MP3 players and so on, there are cell phone batteries, because all kids these days have cell phones (yes they do, I checked), and laptop batteries (verified that too).
I’d boycott batteries if I could. We either need everything to use something that I can get at my local food shop (goodbye cell phone battery!) or everything should just be solar. Slap solar cells on that dino and maybe there will be fewer tears at Christmas. Fewer dropped calls from my cell phone. Fewer pollutants in the atmosphere. And fewer things for John McCain to be wrong about.