Posted on 08/14/2023 6:46:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ping!.....................
Yes, by not buying the darn thing in the first place
That sounds like a gigantic PITA.
Sounds like EVs are absolute pains in the a55. The only reason ever buy one is if you live in a city with HOV lands and you can use your EV to bypass the traffic caused by the smelly middle class. Other than that dastardly reason there’s no reason to own an EV.
That being said, the Rivian is horribly inefficient. It's slow to charge and gets low miles per kWh. It's only purpose as I can tell is to be a status symbol for saving the world from fake warmageddon while also pretending other people see you as a real man able to pretend to do real man pickup chores.
That’s a really good article!
Why dont they just include a small made for purpose gasoline or diesel powered emergency generator you can start up and limp home. The friggen emergency roadside truck had no internal combustion electricity generator for, you know, emergencies where you might need electricity?
Oh that would mean admitting to wrong think.
This sounds extremely stressful, having to manage this so closely, with the results of a miscalulation (that could happen several times a week, depending on how much you drive) really ruining your day.
My life is stressful enough. I don’t need this, but the government seems bent on subjecting us to this.
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This article makes running out of gas and having to walk or hitch a ride to a gas station seem like a picnic!
Buying one of these just went higher on my “Things Not to Do” list, ahead of cave diving and snake handling.
Yeah, no.
The good news is it’ll only cost you $70,000 for your trouble........what a bargain!
You can get a top of the line Toyota Tacoma TRD 4x4 for that......or less probably.
"...The good news is, this whole ordeal was avoidable. The truck did everything it could to warn us and get us to a charger..."
Yes. Like the government. It is going to put us in a situation we didn't need to be in by forcing us to purchase these vehicles, and then tell us, when things like this happen, that it is our fault. Not theirs.
This sounds like a WEF approach to me.
I respectfully disagree. I agree with your premise that EV's are good only in certain use cases (and not pickup chores, since this article is about Rivians). But we don't have HOV lanes where I live and my wife and I get good practical use from our EV. That's mainly because we drive a lot of miles (26K per year), enough for the gas savings to warrant the up front costs of purchase and charger install. That's not getting into if people have enough money to spend on some of the niceties like zippy acceleration and the convenience of charging at home (as opposed to ICE cars requiring me to stop at a gas station once or twice per week even for local driving before I switched to doing most of our driving in the EV).
Last but not least is my fear of the government forcing more control over our energy sources to make various kinds of energy more expensive and perhaps even at some point hard to come by. The fact of that matter is that I can't drill and refine my own oil to provide gas for my ICE pickup. But I can use solar to provide power for the EV (and the house). Shortly after getting the EV 15 months ago I added on to our solar system (a year ago end of August 2022). Since then it's provided 81% of our power in our all-electric home, including charging the EV (by my estimate about 23K of the annual miles are charged at home).
Don't get me wrong. EV's can't do everything. I probably wouldn't have one if I wasn't married and needed 2 cars anyway (one EV car and one ICE pickup). Nor would I have one if I lived up north where cold weather was a problem. Nor would I have one if I couldn't charge at home (i.e. lived in an apartment). Nor would I have one if I didn't drive enough miles to have enough gas and oil change savings to warrant the extra costs of having an EV. But since we meet all those situations for owning an EV, there's a real peace of mind in knowing that the energy for our local driving is self-provided and can't be stopped by stupid Dim energy policies limiting energy to us plebes.
So yes, there are reasons to get an EV without HOV lanes.
Quite an adventure. EV’s will be the end of automobiles as we know it. I’ll keep my Taco.
That is called a hybrid hybrid.
Can you image those horrible do it their-self mechanics trying to fix an EV , my neighbor thinks he’s a mechanic and is fixing his cars everyday and he’s a Courier ,LOL
“I couldn’t charge at home (i.e. lived in an apartment).”
This is a reminder that many millions of people in older cities live in single family homes or duplexes where they have to park on the street.
It is not just apartment dwellers that are unable to charge at home.
This has been a major “oops” that EV companies are discovering—most of their “woke” target audience does not have access to home charging.
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