Besides cost, what keeps you from buying an EV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also can't emphasize this enough: since I've gotten an EV i haven't had to deal with shit, gum, or other horrific substances on gas pumps.

I have been driving for more than 30 years and this has never happened to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me it is two things:

The lack of infrastructure as far as charging stations for someone who drives long distances

How slow it takes to charge an EV versus how quickly I can fill up my car.

This: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4

And making and disposing of batteries isn't as environmentally friendly as well so the overall impact on nature may be a wash vis-a-vis gas powered cars.....

But it's not a wash. People have looked into this (here's one example https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/climate/electric-vehicles-environment.html and here https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths and finally here, which suggests that within three years, EVs are greener than gas cars by any measure https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/are-electric-cars-really-better-for-the-environment/).

Batteries obviously aren't 100 percent free of any environmental impact, but they definitely contribute less to global warming than gas engines do. And are you trying to suggest that extracting oil from the ground has no side effects other than the emissions from burning it? Human rights and pollution are issues for petroleum products as much as they are for the raw materials of batteries.

[Anonymous]

1) recharge time.

2) charging infrastructure.

3) battery fires.


In the near future, homeowners policies will specifically exclude/prohibit policy holders from keeping an EV inside a garage or structure attached to the home.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if any of the people complaining about a supposed lack of charging stations have ever actually put their desired route into this website: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/find/nearest?fuel=ELEC

If you have done so and still really cannot make your drive work, then fine, but I have a feeling you’re all just making excuses.

[Anonymous]

We only have street parking in DC.

And we drive our cars to death, well over ten years +. I'm just not convinced EVs can last that long, and I think driving a gas car (much) longer is better than replacing an EV car. Maybe that will change but for now, that's true. (hoping to get another two years out of our ten year old car, and other car is only 4 years old!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We only have street parking in DC.

And we drive our cars to death, well over ten years +. I'm just not convinced EVs can last that long, and I think driving a gas car (much) longer is better than replacing an EV car. Maybe that will change but for now, that's true. (hoping to get another two years out of our ten year old car, and other car is only 4 years old!)

Tell me you know nothing about EVs without saying you know nothing about EVs.

[Anonymous]

They do not work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) recharge time.

2) charging infrastructure.

3) battery fires.


In the near future, homeowners policies will specifically exclude/prohibit policy holders from keeping an EV inside a garage or structure attached to the home.

Probably not: Gas cars are far, far more likely to catch fire than EVs are. https://electrek.co/2022/01/12/government-data-shows-gasoline-vehicles-are-significantly-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs/

[Anonymous]

I needed a pretty big car for my last purchase, and there are no EVs yet that fit the bill (at least not at a reasonable price point; we didn't bother looking at the big bubble-shaped Tesla because we knew it wasn't an option). The Ford Mach E was close, but still a little cramped. In 5 years when our Accord Hybrid is 10 years old, we'll almost certainly get some kind of EV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) recharge time.

2) charging infrastructure.

3) battery fires.


In the near future, homeowners policies will specifically exclude/prohibit policy holders from keeping an EV inside a garage or structure attached to the home.

All three of these things are vastly overstated by non-ev owners.

Charging time at home is completely irrelevant - I plug it in whenever I get home and it's full whenever I leave. Every single one of us has at least 8 hours a day of free charging time, which is more than enough for any EV. Charging on a trip is also negligible. Charging stops are 20 minutes every 2.5 hours of driving. Considering very few people are taking 5+ hour trips without stopping for gas, or food, or bathroom breaks at least once, you're looking at a few minutes of extra time at most. I drove my Tesla from DC to Savannah recently and it added 1 hour to a 10 hour trip. Considering I ate while I was charging really it was only about 30 minutes more than a gas car would have taken assuming they stopped for a meal along the way. That's nothing.

Charging infrastructure is also a nonissue unless you're going somewhere incredibly remote. Every interstate in the country has enough coverage to get you from one charger to the next with battery to spare. Dense corridors like 95 have chargers every 10-15 miles. And since modern EVs have 200+ miles of range, even if you're going off-interstate, you'd have to go 100 miles into the wilderness before you didn't have enough charge to get back.

And battery fires are probably the dumbest thing to be worried about. They make the news because "new thing scary!" so every EV fire is a national story while zero gas fires are. As others have pointed out, EVs are safer than gas vehicles when it comes to fires.

[Anonymous]

No clutch pedal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) recharge time.

2) charging infrastructure.

3) battery fires.


In the near future, homeowners policies will specifically exclude/prohibit policy holders from keeping an EV inside a garage or structure attached to the home.

Spot on. Inconvenient and dangerous.

[Anonymous]

We would have to have our house rewired and a charging station set up. Lots of housing stock here is OLD. We plan to do this eventually, but not right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No clutch pedal.

The same can be said for 95% of passenger vehicles sold today.

[Anonymous]

I have two EVs and love them. I have done the researching of the net environment and safety with an EV as much better than what the fuel injection vehicle. All the garbage bag cool and charging infrastructure and battery fires is just a lot of BS

That's it, an inability to charge at home and owning a perfectly good fuel injected vehicle are valid reasons to not get an EV.

There's some data that that putting your car in the resale market is a net zero for the environment so no problem there. But putting a new EV into production when you have a car that has many years left in his life, it's not a good choice.