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To: Red Badger

The rest of us taxpayers who cannot afford or would not have an EV get to subsidize liberals who can easily afford one as their second or third car.

I recently read a story on why people gave up their EV’s and went back to gas cars. They were almost exclusively from the middle class. They, on average were unable to park it in a garage and did not buy the 220V charger, limiting them to an extension cord and 110V charging. On average 110V charging for the typical EV takes 24hrs, making them impractical for working people. Also, few of the people who gave them up for a return to gas had a second, gas car, for unplanned trips.

Other issues were about charging infrastructure being unavailable or extremely complicated as to terms, prices, and usability. As another issue, there is no plug standard in the US, so you have to have several $150 jumper plugs to adapt to the various charging system plugs. In short, too complicated to use public charging and too expensive to buy adapters and too much planning as to win and how you use it.


5 posted on 07/28/2022 11:21:15 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Gen.Blather
The rest of us taxpayers who cannot afford or would not have an EV get to subsidize liberals who can easily afford one as their second or third car.

It doesn't get much more obscene than taxpayers subsidizing cars for wealthy people.

17 posted on 07/28/2022 12:01:10 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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