[[So I counted the 10% more in tire expense more than made up for in lower brake expense. ]]
Good point- there are usually pros and cons about. MOst things-
I’m not agaisnt em, but sure don’t wanna be forced to buy one. With my luck I’d buy a lemon and have to replace the battery packs @ about $20,000 a pop every few years. Might be better off buying a used ev at that point if i were to get one.
The other problem though is living where it gets very cold and runni g hewter, draining the battery- and then sweltering in the summer because ac drains the batteries. Would be nice if they could create a small really fuel efficient engine tO run heater and air and any extra peripherals while still running on electric propulsion.
F-1 racing cars have a system where tHey harvest their braking power to recharge the car’s energy in the battery, but not sure if that could be done with lithium, batteries too.
Lots of things to work out before evs are ready for prime time, if at all. For summer driving, short distances, buying used might be the easy to go, but I’ll stick with gas as it is tried and true now.
FWIW, my 3.5 miles/kWh metric is based on my results, including running the A/C in hot Alabama (as well as headlights and then in the winter running the heater). On a spring day my local driving is closer to 4.5 miles/kWh. But in the real world I have to run the AC some and the heater some and the headlights, just like gas cars in the real world don't get their stated mpg. Also, there's the fact that some of my local charging is for highway miles. Part of that is because I live in a somewhat rural area and I drive 75mph on a highway for about 7 miles one-way when I go to town. And part of that is when I go on long trips and drive 80mph on the interstate, the first leg of that trip was charged at home. All of that narrows down to me getting 3.5 miles/kWh in the real world.
One of the main reasons I got an EV is because, since we need 2 cars anyway, having one of them an EV and one of them a gas car gives us some diversification in our energy dependencies. If the Dims make gas too expensive and hard to come by, we'll take our trips in the EV. If the Dims make the grid less dependable or too expensive, we'll do most of our trips in the gas truck. If the Dims mess up both gas and the grid then it'll mess up our long trips, but we can at least do local driving in the EV charged by home solar.
I understand why some people do prepping. My version of prepping isn't to try to survive in a Mad Max style dystopia and living on a year's worth of stored food and water. That type of scenario may or may not come. What I see happening is the left trying to control us with more of a slow-boil-kills-the-frog approach, and they've chosen energy as their favorite weapon. By making our home and transportation mostly energy self-reliant, my wife and I are hopefully in a good position to be comfortable in retirement while we resist the left's demand for us to reduce our freedoms.