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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying "EVs" are a disaster when you mean trucks for big hauls and all-terrain is stupid. Use the right tool for the right job. My husband's EV is meant to be a commuter car; it does a fantastic job for that. If he wanted to haul lumber up a mountain every day in ice and snow, he'd use a different vehicle. Dumb thread.[/quote]

Yeah, except people in California won't have a choice. They will be forced to buy trash EV trucks if they have to haul work equipment etc.  What are they gonna do, waste 4 hours per day charging because they have to drive 150 miles in a day while hauling equipment.

What a dumb post by you. [/quote]

Haha, oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had stumbled into the Blue Collar California Moms and Dads forum. Silly me, thinking the vast majority of posters here who have or who are considering EVs buy small sedans or SUVs and use them primarily for commuting and soccer practice.

Bye![/quote]

Look deeper.

(I know, I know, that’s not your thing. Try anyway)

Let’s say you need your toilet fixed. Because I doubt you’re the handy type. So you need to call a plumber. Plumbers drive work trucks or vans. They need to, because they have to carry lots of tools, not to mention toilets, sinks, water heaters, and lengths of pipe. They MUST use a truck of some kind.

So you call your plumber and set an appointment for say, 10am. The plumber drives out to your home - using 50% of the vehicle’s charge to get there - and fixes/replaces your toilet/sink/whatever in about an hour. Then she (see what I did there? Yeah, women are plumbers too) she needs the rest of the vehicles charge to get home. If she had a conventional truck, she could just take a couple minutes, fill up with gas, and hit another job or two after your house - which she finished at 11am. But she can’t do that. She needs to recharge her EV truck now, otherwise if she goes to another job after yours, she won’t make it home or to pick up her kid from aftercare, because she’ll need to recharge for an hour or so after running down her EV truck battery.

So now instead of doing 3 or maybe even 4 jobs a day, she’s limited to 1 or 2.

Her earning potential has effectively been cut in half because of the complications of recharging the vehicle.

Do you think she’s simply going to eat that cost and accept earning half what she used to when she drove a ICE truck?

Nope.

She’s going to make it up by charging you double the price.

So your toilet replacement, which might’ve cost $300-$400 before, will now cost you $600-$800 now instead. Because she’s only doing half the work - so the work needs to produce twice as much revenue.

Extrapolate that over an entire service economy now. Everything will get more expensive, and take longer.

That’s a deeper look.

Try it. [/quote]
 :lol: You can't get thru to DCUM fools![/quote]

Best post ever (the long one) - so funny.[/quote]

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