This is just my observation. Anything battery powered that gets used a lot will progressively last a shorter amount of time each time you use it. At the beginning, it’s a microscopic amount, but towards the end of its lifecycle, it just drops off a cliff. When the EV is five years old, the amount of time that the battery will last has to be a good bit less than when it was new. To me this just makes it a very bad idea. It’s one thing when it’s a cordless drill but it’s another when you’re in a car on a deserted road out in the middle of nowhere with no ability to charge it. It’s a lot easier to find a gas station in that situation than an EV charging station. The people pushing these cars obviously don’t use them.
C/D and Motortrend were also both huge shills for Chevrolet when they got the bailout and afterwards. They even omit the F150 in all "best pickup truck" contests. I forget which magazine, but I remember one instance in which the writer said the mustang was better in every category than the camaro, but in the conclusion, the camaro was his pick because it had better brakes....
Notice they also made the Volt sound like the best car ever made for the last few years.
The EV’s are: too expensive, too limited in mileage capacity, take to long to charge and use more fossil fuels than gasoline, will be found to be to expensive to charge compared to gasoline, batteries are to expensive at $29,000/battery, batteries favor China, which is the producer of lithium batteries. Until the above points change: No to EVs.
Yeah but if you by an IC car, you don't get to stick your nose up in the air and nod knowingly at your fellow retards about how wonderful you all are for saving the planet.
Any idiot can figure out that the mining of the rare earth elements and metals needed for gigantic car batteries is an environmental nightmare in about 5 minutes of research. And yet I know a ton of people that feel morally superior for driving a toy electric car.
I unfortunately live in Georgia now and I have never seen anything like here......LITERALLY every other car is a dam EV...mostly teslas. There's even a dealership here. Pretty sure it's some sort of status symbol to the many many rich fucks here. I'm just amazed everyday.....never seen so many teslas in my life! Even coming from dallas/ft worth, then California, then florida. Anyways, had to tell somebody haha.
It’s because of the EPA cycle that favors city driving, an environment that’s best for EV consumption.
If you then drive the case on highways, of course EVs will perform worse, as you remove 55% of the situations were the EV outperforms an ICE.
If you do a 100% city drive, the results would be opposite, and EVs would perform better than it’s combustion cousin.
We don’t see the same here in Europe, where both EVs and ICEs are going through the same WLTP cycle, which is a bit more “life like” than your EPA.
As both a ICE and EV driver for the last 10 years, I’ve seen that both my ICEs and EVs are underperforming about 10% year around. The EV is worse in winter, and over performing in summer, my ICE is more thirsty than the sticker all year around.
But that’s driving my usual driving cycle.
If you have a 100% highway driving cycle, expect a lower range on your EV, compared to the sticker that’s 55% city driving.
WOW, C/D is one of the primary shill departments for EV's. Them admitting this is HUGE.
This is just my observation. Anything battery powered that gets used a lot will progressively last a shorter amount of time each time you use it. At the beginning, it’s a microscopic amount, but towards the end of its lifecycle, it just drops off a cliff. When the EV is five years old, the amount of time that the battery will last has to be a good bit less than when it was new. To me this just makes it a very bad idea. It’s one thing when it’s a cordless drill but it’s another when you’re in a car on a deserted road out in the middle of nowhere with no ability to charge it. It’s a lot easier to find a gas station in that situation than an EV charging station. The people pushing these cars obviously don’t use them.
BINGO
I tell this to people all the time
My car made in 2005 still gets the same gas mileage as it did a decade ago. It will continue to get the same gas mileage years from now.
Historians are just going to shitcan our entire contribution to history and call this a Dark Age of bullshit.
This is going to read like 100 years of Finnegan's Wake.
C/D and Motortrend were also both huge shills for Chevrolet when they got the bailout and afterwards. They even omit the F150 in all "best pickup truck" contests. I forget which magazine, but I remember one instance in which the writer said the mustang was better in every category than the camaro, but in the conclusion, the camaro was his pick because it had better brakes....
Notice they also made the Volt sound like the best car ever made for the last few years.
The EV’s are: too expensive, too limited in mileage capacity, take to long to charge and use more fossil fuels than gasoline, will be found to be to expensive to charge compared to gasoline, batteries are to expensive at $29,000/battery, batteries favor China, which is the producer of lithium batteries. Until the above points change: No to EVs.
Yeah but if you by an IC car, you don't get to stick your nose up in the air and nod knowingly at your fellow retards about how wonderful you all are for saving the planet.
Any idiot can figure out that the mining of the rare earth elements and metals needed for gigantic car batteries is an environmental nightmare in about 5 minutes of research. And yet I know a ton of people that feel morally superior for driving a toy electric car.
It's battery-operated. They want to make it sound fancy by calling it EV.
It's the parasites, not the elites. It's mental illness, not trans.
I unfortunately live in Georgia now and I have never seen anything like here......LITERALLY every other car is a dam EV...mostly teslas. There's even a dealership here. Pretty sure it's some sort of status symbol to the many many rich fucks here. I'm just amazed everyday.....never seen so many teslas in my life! Even coming from dallas/ft worth, then California, then florida. Anyways, had to tell somebody haha.
So their solution to EVs underperforming is to change the way they are tested...i.e. manipulate the data to fit the results they want. How typical.
It’s because of the EPA cycle that favors city driving, an environment that’s best for EV consumption.
If you then drive the case on highways, of course EVs will perform worse, as you remove 55% of the situations were the EV outperforms an ICE.
If you do a 100% city drive, the results would be opposite, and EVs would perform better than it’s combustion cousin.
We don’t see the same here in Europe, where both EVs and ICEs are going through the same WLTP cycle, which is a bit more “life like” than your EPA.
As both a ICE and EV driver for the last 10 years, I’ve seen that both my ICEs and EVs are underperforming about 10% year around. The EV is worse in winter, and over performing in summer, my ICE is more thirsty than the sticker all year around.
But that’s driving my usual driving cycle.
If you have a 100% highway driving cycle, expect a lower range on your EV, compared to the sticker that’s 55% city driving.
I fail to see that this is new information??