The good news is that carbon neutral synthetic fuels are rapidly maturing and arguably have a better carbon footprint than manufacturing millions of short life span BEVs.
Hybrid is clearly the way to go until SMR's and a 1st world electric grid are successfully operating in California.
I was in a home brew electric car club back in 2012 era, people had the entire pickup bed of trucks full of batteries with a deganging lever like a giant train brake to disengage the batteries in the event of thermal runaway.
Asking people who aren't interested or experienced with cars to 'convert' for 2k is going to end up with a lot of cowboy jerry rigged opportunist fire hazard vehicles on the road. Portantino's proposal is naive and highly irresponsible IMO.
People who are serious about EV conversions use excellent companies like EVWest.com you can do the conversion math there...
https://coryton.com/lab/videos/how-can-we-decrease-carbon-em...
Hybrid is clearly the way to go until SMR's and a 1st world electric grid are successfully operating in California.
I was in a home brew electric car club back in 2012 era, people had the entire pickup bed of trucks full of batteries with a deganging lever like a giant train brake to disengage the batteries in the event of thermal runaway.
Asking people who aren't interested or experienced with cars to 'convert' for 2k is going to end up with a lot of cowboy jerry rigged opportunist fire hazard vehicles on the road. Portantino's proposal is naive and highly irresponsible IMO.
People who are serious about EV conversions use excellent companies like EVWest.com you can do the conversion math there...