Really? You are asking for IRB approval just to fill a random survey on Google forms? You are definitely being too difficult.

Well, of course there’s a limited amount of oil in the world so we’ll run out of it at some point, but the estimates are always based on reserves, and reserves change based on the price. If we start “running out” the price will go up and more oil will be available to extract at those prices, so we’ll have more reserves and more years of it. The amount of oil we are burning has been quite stable for the last few years in about 100 million barrels per day, not a lot changed because of the war (you need a massive amount of gasoline to keep the billions of cars in the world running).

In any case, if we keep burning oil up to the point where we start running out of it, the world would already be in a much terrible situation, that’s why we need to start now and with the right justification (we need to stop burning fossil fuels, no matter how much of them there is).

Oil is not going to run out anytime soon. We are not switching to EVs because oil might run out, it’s because we can’t keep burning oil at this rate and expect the Earth to be liveable for us in 50 years, it’s as easy as that, it doesn’t require a further explanation.

Trolls get less smart every minute.

Yes, they can be considered environmentally friendly because they are a much better technology than what we have now. I think you could criticise many things about EVs but you picked the most stupid argument. You could say that mining the materials for the batteries produces more emissions, or that in many countries electricity is generated using fossil fuels, but okay… This factories will produce less emissions as the electricity sector gets cleaner and as manufacturing processes become more efficient, but so far it’s the best we can have, unless we all decided to ride wooden bicycles.

You are terribly rich, top 1% compared to the rest of the world. You can’t say that people might as well stay in the Stone Age as if it was their decision. Almost no none outside of OECD countries can afford a Tesla Model Y (and I’m not even talking about the S or X). I don’t know the financial situation of the people around you that “don’t care”, but it’s not as easy as it is for you to buy 4 EVs out of nowhere.

Nobody will kill the momentum, almost every car manufacturer is engaged with it and they are all planning to go full electric in the mid term. If you really want to support the adoption of EVs you should fight for smaller and cheaper cars (as the US market is quite responsible for the whole world being flooded with SUVs).

Besides the constant power requirement you have, which basically doesn’t change no matter what you put around there, motor systems used in EVs are quite “sophisticated” in terms of how much you can control them, which doesn’t exist at all for combustion engines. Depending the power demand you have from the car at any given instant, the controller can set the motor to provide the torque and the speed at the highest efficiency point, which is super interesting.