The EV’s are probably fine for around town and very short trips. Also, they forgot to mention the cold weather aspect.
They're tied to that charging station for a long, predictable period of time - unlike a gas station, where you can be in and out in minutes.
I’m holding out for teleportation portals.
They’re electric and if they do destabilize the space-time continuum, then we won’t have to worry about cow farts causing green house effects.
Wrong car..
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Like there’s a right one.
Not meant for long trips or any other serious use.
Also, not better for the environment than ICE cars. In order to charge them, you need electricity obtained by coal, natural gas, or nuclear methods.
They are NOT KIND to the PLANET!!! It takes CHILD LABOR to DIG UP THE MINERALS that are needed to do the battery!!
They aren't actually "kind to the planet". They are polluting cars....The minerals and metals they mine..are straight on pollution. When they start on fire....they pollute the air and the ground.
“...so just getting to 74% took a full 45 minutes of waiting around...”
That’s odd. I fill my battery...err gas tank...to 100% every single time.
Well, unless I’m short on cash and I’m treating the entire family to gas station sushi.
“Kind to the planet”…lie number one.
Articles like this make me SMILE every time I drive my gasoline car past a charging station and know that I don’t have to spend half of my living hours waiting for a few electrons to make it into the battery.
Also note that he was paying 40 cents per kwh to charge, roughly 4 TIMES what I pay for electricity at home.
I priced a Toyota Highlander LE Hybrid...over $55 grand.
America - quit letting the stupid unconstitutional federal government tell you what and how to run your lives!!!!!!
The long road-trip is the Achilles heel of the EV. As I mentioned in another thread, I drove the long stretch of I-5 between Modesto, CA, and the Tehachapis a few days ago, and I counted no fewer than 3 Teslas in distress on the side of the road. Drivers miscalculate range. The vehicles themselves generate range estimates that prove overly optimistic, and drivers end up on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere with a dead battery. Who needs that kinda crap? If you’re using your EV for short commutes around local area and recharging every day, then okay this might work for you. But the venerable internal-combustion vehicle blows your EV away when it comes to road-trip convenience.
“... kind to the planet...”. Someone put the “D” in delusional! Say we remove anything and everything on this suv associated in anyway with petro byproducts. Resulting in pretty much a blank picture. Fidiots!
How are EV’s kind to the planet when the electricity to charge batteries comes from mostly same power plants now in existence which burn lots of oil, gas and coal.
China is building NEW COAL FIRED power plants one every week!
India is not far behind. Coal power plants are cheaper than any other power source except hydro. USA is moving towards most expensive source of energy...green power. Great for manufacturing to be exported abroad.
Construction and waste disposal of electric vehicles is not “Earth Friendly”.
My driving record was 920 miles in one day solo.
It wasn’t in an EV.
Imagine a car that can only hold 2 gallons of gas in the tank, and then it must be refilled with an eyedropper, so that it takes 3 hours to put 2 more gallons in.
Nobody would buy such a vehicle.
So what is the plan when they end internal combustion engines and if electric vehicles have the same performance as today to address people who lived in rural areas, on farms, ranches, etc.? And really anywhere, except in a large city, where they only travel around town? What about people with travel trailers, boats, etc.?