Unless you drive over 200 miles a day more than once per week, you’re a total moron if you buy a gasoline engine car. Every new gas car I see I think to myself “that person is stupid. they intentionally bought a worse vehicle that costs more”.
Unless you drive over 200 miles a day more than once per week, you’re a total moron if you buy a gasoline engine car. Every new gas car I see I think to myself “that person is stupid. they intentionally bought a worse vehicle that costs more”.
sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of my F40!
If you drive an EV you either have a vagina or a mangina.
I don't drive a gas car. I drive a diesel Ford F350 Super Duty. I use it to haul all the items I need to install solar panels on very wealthy homes.
Gas cars are safer. As a local runner and cyclist, the worst thing that could happen to me out on a run or ride is getting hit by an electric car #thatbatteryweighsaton
Wait until you hear about geofencing.
The electric car represents the stupid, prideful American way of life in so many ways. We have an emissions and energy problem? No worries! Instead of investing in public transit which is safer and more enjoyable than driving, we'll all just keep driving but we'll drive electric cars! We have an obesity crisis? No worries! Instead of walking, riding our bikes and thinking about how to become less reliant on motor vehicles, let's all just drive our fancy electric cars to the gym!
Sometimes I think we deserve to get nuked.
I love my gasser
1999 Silverado with the 5.7 liter beast 350
18 mpg cruising at 60.
I know every nut and bolt on that truck
I can't make it to work, the power went out at the house and I couldn't recharge the "car".
Software glitch, I pushed the button and nothing happened.
Elon fired everyone and my car won't work.
I’m waiting for a manual transmission EV to come out.
But seriously, there is a great lack of choices at the moment with EVs.
That will get better over time.
If every single person decided to buy an EV car right now, the supply vs demand would be so out of whack they’d cost $300,000 each.
Coal powered electric cars… helping liberals pretend they’re solving a make believe crisis.
Electric cars are great for a small portion of the population who have a charging unit readily available. However, a large portion of the population does not have a place to charge an electric car at home (apartments, condos, etc).
Electric cars cost 20% more than an equivalent gasoline car. Yes, it uses lower cost electricity, but it is still about 50% the cost of gas per mile so it takes 100Kmi+ to make up the initial price difference.
We don't have enough long term data to know average battery life, but estimates are ~100-150Kmi and a battery pack costs $10k.
The charging infrastructure cannot handle everyone driving electric cars now or in the near future.
I paid $13k for my 2019 Hyundai Kona in 2020 (used, 38k miles). I've done nothing other than oil changes and new tires. On average it takes about 3 weeks to go through a tank of gas, and on road trips, the car can get close to 40mpg. It would make no economic sense for me to buy an EV at this point.
More complicated than that. Depends where you live, depends if you have solar. Where I live gas cost and electricity cost are almost the same.
Most of the arguments against EVs seem to be “I’m really poor or live somewhere terrible”
Sloppy Papi wrote:
I’m waiting for a manual transmission EV to come out.
But seriously, there is a great lack of choices at the moment with EVs.
That will get better over time.If every single person decided to buy an EV car right now, the supply vs demand would be so out of whack they’d cost $300,000 each.
There is literally no lack of choice. Name a single passenger vehicle class that lacks an EV that in almost all cases outperforms its gasoline equivalent. Gas cars are the ones that fill niches now - the vast majority of people do not drive further per day than can be replaced by plugging into a standard outlet overnight.
People being terrified of change does not mean the technology or product is inferior.
Electricity comes from the wall wrote:
Coal powered electric cars… helping liberals pretend they’re solving a make believe crisis.
Most electricity in good states like CA is renewable. My car runs on solar.
New excuse wrote:
I can't make it to work, the power went out at the house and I couldn't recharge the "car".
Software glitch, I pushed the button and nothing happened.
Elon fired everyone and my car won't work.
Internal combustion engines never have problems.
Nancy B. wrote:
I paid $13k for my 2019 Hyundai Kona in 2020 (used, 38k miles). I've done nothing other than oil changes and new tires. On average it takes about 3 weeks to go through a tank of gas, and on road trips, the car can get close to 40mpg. It would make no economic sense for me to buy an EV at this point.
I hope we all aspire to do better than drive used Hyundais.
I have a 2020 Rav4 hybrid, the best of both worlds.
Great on gas, very reliable and I don't have to plan to spend an hr at a charging station.
People are starting to realize hybrids are the way to go, and in terms of environmental impacts its just as great at any EV.