Sorry for taking so long to get back on this Sis.  I remember I watched the video when you first sent it waaaay back when, but when I tried to reload it, it is no longer available.  However the issue is not lost upon me. Just as a reminder, ICE stands for Internal Combustion Engine (saves me a ton of typing LOL)

By User:Wapcaplet - Own work, made with Blender, CC BY-SA 3.0, 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=182044

In any case, most folks think Electric Cars are the Cats' Ass, but I believe they are not aware of the full story.  Yes, Electric is more efficient, and while it may cost over $100 to fill up a ICE motor while an electric car only costs $7 to fill, one could obviously think that it is a no-brainer.  And sadly, many do.

Lately, there has been more information added to the growing pile of concerns, and a major consideration is that the battery packs in these vehicles "may" require replacement if even a few cells become defective for whatever reason. 

The cure?  Replace the whole damned battery pack.  

That's between $10L and $20K per pack.  That cost is not built into any price compairsons that I have seen.  

Look, it may only cost $3-6K to replace a Gas/diesel ICE motor, and odds are that during the entire life of your car, it may never need a replacement motor, the cost to do so is much less.  eVeh's are much more likely to need a replacement in 10 years, while the ICE is chugging merrily along.  So...backloaded expenses.

This is why the industry is screaming along trying to develop safer, larger, stronger and more powerful batteries made from common, safe elements.  Here is a list of the Top 5 latest battery technologies 

1. Nanotube-Lithium-Tungsten 

2.  Zinc-manganese oxide batteries

3.  Organosilicon electrolyte batteries

4.  Gold nanowire gel electrolyte batteries, and

5.   TankTwo String Cell™ batteries.

Bonus #1 IBM's "Sea Water" Batteries

So, to get back to Tesla, they are falling behind GM and Ford because Tesla does not have Dealerships, marketing directly to buyers, then giving them a list of local agencies that are capable of maintaining the vehicle.  Tesla does not do maintenance on it's own vehicles, and this is coming back to bite their butt as GM and Ford crank up their architecture to swap over to eVeh's.

Just to add to my statements above.  There ARE a few select Tesla Dealerships, but again, mostly located in affluent neighbourhoods.  In Alberta, there is just ONE dealership in Calgary (of course.).

Here is what is available in my nearest city, Edmonton.  I has 1 Store ( in reality, a Nissan Infinity Dealership) trying to hone into some lucrative money, I suppose.  There are 8 locations in Edmonton and area to charge a Tesla, only 1 supercharger location near downtown Edmonton.  No dealerships, no Collision centres.

Calgary has 1 Dealership (with service centre!), 13 Charger locations, (No superchargers!), no collision centres, unless the dealership is into that too? One cannot tell from their "nonexistant" website that is soooo generic that details are muchly overlooked!

Heck, even the Tesladealer listings for dealerships only have them in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver...

So as you would guess, Ford and GM do not suffer this rather large problem as they already have established dealerships and garages around the world.  

However, in N. America, dealerships are privately owned, having signed a MOU with the manufacturers insofar as price standards, training standards and corporate  SOP's.  

Along with this is the fact that the dealerships must pay to send their guys for training on new models of vehicles, and the electric vehicles will put a small strain upon their budgets as there is less "fiddle room" to inflate any PO or repair bill.  Also, tech courses tend to be more expensive, so not all dealerships are on board with maintaining, or heck, even selling, electric vehicles.  

Many of these courses are upgrade courses, and some are mandatory, with the Corporation paying for that training.  Especially on new Tech items.  So...we'll see what happens next.

We are almost to the fulcrum between ICE and Electric.  I don't think we will EVER get rid of ICE's as the power to weight ratio is too overwhelming over battery, that operations in the Arctic can only economically be done using ICE's.

I do, however believe in the slightly more difficult change-over to Hydrogen.  It is a nearly infinite supply (think all the oceans and other water sources!!!), something we cannot say for natural gas or oil.  

Solar/Wind is an effective tool to maintain network capabilities during high-use times, helping to keep that power bump down in cost.  Mega-batteries attached to these farms are also a great idea.   

In Australia, Tesla installed a 100 MegaWatt batterie next to a locally city's solar farm, and it paid for itself in 3 years, and now saves the city upwards of $3-5 million in savings over using the standard utility.  They have recently installed another 50 MW battery in yet another city's solar farm.  Go Aussies!!!

This is still new tech, and is still being tweaked, but the result is inevitable - it just makes fiscal sense to use this system.  Texas sure as hell could have used such a system, but because Texas is so deregulated, they just fall on their collective butts every single time a simple issue pops up because it is not profitable to have backup and huge safety margins.  

This is a case of Front-Loading the industry, and the industry saying "nope, no profit in that!".  So...Texas...yeah.

Anyways, I have no intention of buying an eVeh for some time to come as I may not be able to handle the down-stream giant-expense for any replacement, modification or emergency repairs.  Just not in this guy's cards.  

Unless I win one, of course...

Like this guy: Ford F-150 Lightening