Besides cost, what keeps you from buying an EV?

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Anonymous wrote:Battery fires are serious. Takes a lot of water--more than a normal fire truck carries--to extinguish the fire. Also, spontaneous fires occur. Especially dangerous for those with attached garages.

Lack of charging stations.

This. Hearing of home fires scares me as a fire survivor. What if it caught fire while I was sleeping. I'd never park one in my home or driveway.

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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.

It can charge while you sleep. Never need to stop to recharge unless over 200 miles. Charge is done in like 10 mins which is same amount of time to gas up

What is the cost to your electricity bill?

It costs me about $4 to $6 to charge fully at home. So yes, your electric bill goes up by however many times you need to charge in a month. But you’re not buying gas, which last I checked, costs about that much per gallon, not per 2/3 a tank (I usually charge from about 20 percent to about 80 percent).

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I live in a condo and my parking spot is in an outdoor surface lot. I don't have a way to charge an EV at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Battery fires are serious. Takes a lot of water--more than a normal fire truck carries--to extinguish the fire. Also, spontaneous fires occur. Especially dangerous for those with attached garages.

Lack of charging stations.

This. Hearing of home fires scares me as a fire survivor. What if it caught fire while I was sleeping. I'd never park one in my home or driveway.

Do you park a gasoline powered vehicle in your garage and/or driveway?

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Anonymous wrote:Electric cars - the biggest scam the world has ever seen?

Has anyone ever thought about this?

"If all cars were electric...

And if we were stuck in a three hour traffic jam in the cold of a blizzard, the batteries would completely die.

Because electric cars basically don’t have heating.

And being stuck on the street all night, no battery, no heating, no wipers, no radio, no GPS, the battery is long dead.

You can try to call ambulance and protect women and children but they can't come to help because all roads are closed and probably all police cars will be electric.

And when the roads are blocked by thousands of loaded cars, no one will be able to proceed. How to charge batteries on site?

The same problem during the summer vacation is the traffic jams for miles.

The possibility of turning on the air conditioning in an electric car would not be available only for a short period of time. Your batteries would die in an instant!

Of course, no politician or journalist talks about it, but this will happen.

Who to believe: a rando recycling the equivalent of an email forward from “that” uncle or engineers? https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-environment-ev-idUSL1N2RW0QD

Further? How did all of those gas-powered cars do getting stuck during snowpocalypse?

My gas powered Rubicon got me over the bank of snow that the plow left, off an exit ramp and from Spottsylvania to home on what might have been roads or perhaps not while all those Teslas and Priuses were stuck on 95. Back in the original snowpocalypse, my TJ got me home by driving up the median (with the blessing of a kind officer who probably had his own jeep at home) around a bunch of stuck cars.

Jeeps are widely understood to be joke cars for teen girls and the insecure, with the Rubicon being especially silly.

Fascinating!

You seem to think “widely understood” seems to mean you and the other two 30-something SAHM’s you hang out with at the pool.


Please, if I may - what are some other things you think are also “widely understood”? I’m genuinely fascinated to hear!

DP. Maybe it depends on where you are from. I’m from the Northeast and 30 years ago wranglers were really popular with teen girls. Along with vw cabriolets.