My favorite! What use to be a 5 hour road trip is now 8 hours because of slow ev charging!! What progress!!! Oh also a shopping cart hit your car and now you're on the hook for a 30k battery replacement.
Don't forget ev tires wear faster = more pollution.
They're heavier = more $$ road construction, faster road were. More deaths in accidents.
The battery is the most toxic thing on this planet. = more pollution and more slaves.
EVs were always in part to control your movement and track it. (Tax per mile).
Yeah, the market would support a certain % of those in the overall car market for sure and some people really like theirs. The centralized planning forcing things on us is crap like always.
A bit off topic but part of the reason I still enjoy motorcycle riding in my 60s is because they can’t force self riding bikes on us. 😁
My EV is the best car I have ever owned ( Tesla model Y with self driving). I charge at home. I just keep it plugged in when I am not using it. I get a little over 4 miles per Kwh (.16 cents per Kwh or 4 cents per mile). I have gone on a couple of long trips. Using a super charger is no big deal. Much faster than I thought it would be. 8-18 minutes. Just enough time for a bathroom break then good for another 250 or so miles. With a gas car I would stay with the car while I gas up and then park the car then use the bathroom. With the Tesla I just plug it in and go inside.Most of the time I am just driving around town and I don't even think about how many miles I have left. I don't even come close to having a problem.
I would not like it if I was forced to buy electric just like I would not like it if I was forced to buy a gas car.
I am in a warn climate so I don't know what it would be like in really cold weather. It seems to me that a lot of what people are saying about EVs is not really true. i got the car because of the self driving. If at the time I had a choice between EV and gas I would have pciked gas. Now that I have had this car for over 1/2 year I am quite pleased with the EV.
My brother is the one that told me about Tesla cars. He has a 2020 model s plaid. (Insane fast). He bought it a little over 5 years ago and it is still going great. He dies not abuse the battery. He only charged it to 80 prevent when he is just around town. He will charge to 100% if he is going on a trip. He plans the trip so that he is at 100% for an hour or less. Of you do things like that you should be able to get at least 1 million miles on the battery. Keeping the battery between 30 and 80 percent charge will give you a very long lasting battery.
Not enough chargers. Cold and batteries don't go well together. That will change once newer batteries under development go mainstream. Significantly more distance, not bothered by cold, fully charged in a few minutes. I don't own an EV yet, but the new self-driving Teslas are on my radar. I'm installing solar at my house too. I'll be happy to ignore all the electric rate hikes and be able to charge my car at home.
Electric cars are a scam.
They do not work in cold weather worth a shit. Battery's lose power and you would also need them for heat....
If you hit the ditch in bad weather,you are likely to die,if out on a lonely road.
My favorite! What use to be a 5 hour road trip is now 8 hours because of slow ev charging!! What progress!!! Oh also a shopping cart hit your car and now you're on the hook for a 30k battery replacement.
Don't forget ev tires wear faster = more pollution.
They're heavier = more $$ road construction, faster road were. More deaths in accidents.
The battery is the most toxic thing on this planet. = more pollution and more slaves.
EVs were always in part to control your movement and track it. (Tax per mile).
Our electrical grid can't handle wide scale adoption.
They're ugly as fuck.
The only electric driven vehicle that has a chance to be worth it are ones that also have a gas or diesel engine as a generator.
We call those “hybrids”…. They work! So long as there’s fossil fuels to feed them, they’ll function as designed.
*just 'fuels' 😉
Yeah, the market would support a certain % of those in the overall car market for sure and some people really like theirs. The centralized planning forcing things on us is crap like always.
A bit off topic but part of the reason I still enjoy motorcycle riding in my 60s is because they can’t force self riding bikes on us. 😁
Same. I have a car for transporting people and larger quantities of food but I primarily ride my motorcycle.
Finland has VERY cold winters. Electric cars cannot be too hot or cold or they underperform. Or if its cold enough, they don't work at all.
My EV is the best car I have ever owned ( Tesla model Y with self driving). I charge at home. I just keep it plugged in when I am not using it. I get a little over 4 miles per Kwh (.16 cents per Kwh or 4 cents per mile). I have gone on a couple of long trips. Using a super charger is no big deal. Much faster than I thought it would be. 8-18 minutes. Just enough time for a bathroom break then good for another 250 or so miles. With a gas car I would stay with the car while I gas up and then park the car then use the bathroom. With the Tesla I just plug it in and go inside.Most of the time I am just driving around town and I don't even think about how many miles I have left. I don't even come close to having a problem. I would not like it if I was forced to buy electric just like I would not like it if I was forced to buy a gas car. I am in a warn climate so I don't know what it would be like in really cold weather. It seems to me that a lot of what people are saying about EVs is not really true. i got the car because of the self driving. If at the time I had a choice between EV and gas I would have pciked gas. Now that I have had this car for over 1/2 year I am quite pleased with the EV.
Be interesting to hear if you feel the same way when it's time to replace the battery.
My brother is the one that told me about Tesla cars. He has a 2020 model s plaid. (Insane fast). He bought it a little over 5 years ago and it is still going great. He dies not abuse the battery. He only charged it to 80 prevent when he is just around town. He will charge to 100% if he is going on a trip. He plans the trip so that he is at 100% for an hour or less. Of you do things like that you should be able to get at least 1 million miles on the battery. Keeping the battery between 30 and 80 percent charge will give you a very long lasting battery.
Not enough chargers. Cold and batteries don't go well together. That will change once newer batteries under development go mainstream. Significantly more distance, not bothered by cold, fully charged in a few minutes. I don't own an EV yet, but the new self-driving Teslas are on my radar. I'm installing solar at my house too. I'll be happy to ignore all the electric rate hikes and be able to charge my car at home.
Wonder what the percentage of Americans who wouldn't consider owning an electric car is.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/474095/americans-not-completely-sold-electric-vehicles.aspx