If I couldn’t charge at home, or regularly took very long trips, the EV wouldn’t make sense.
Precisely. Until the ease of refuelling becomes more competitive with ICE cars for the average user, EVs are not going to see mass adoption.
I just looked and my EV (a model 3) is 50 pounds heavier than my other car (a Lexus hybird sedan). That’s a pretty negligible difference.
The weight difference between an EV and a HEV/PHEV usually isn’t as dramatic as between an EV and an ICE vehicle. Plus you’re not comparing like with like (Tesla vs Lexus). A better comparison would be, for example, the Hyundai Kona EV (curb weight 3,803 lb) versus the gasoline Kona (2,855 lbs) - Source. That’s nearly 1,000 lbs of extra weight due to the battery pack and hardware.
All that extra weight means more power required for propulsion, which in turn means larger and more expensive battery packs. While this has gotten better over the years compared to previous gen EVs, it still makes EVs costly to buy and potentially repair.
If I understand the gist of the paper you linked and the concepts you mentioned correctly, aren’t they effectively the same thing?
As in, reality (as we perceive it) essentially arises from the intersection (or perhaps, interaction ) between observer and observed.
Side note: I find it interesting that the latest research emerging from theoretical physicists is increasingly reinforcing ideas that Buddhists and Vedic philosophers have argued for centuries. Namely, that the existence of individual selves is an illusion, and that all things are essentially temporary manifestations of the same, unifying, cosmic substance.