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Why You Should NOT Buy an Electric Car!
youtube ^ | 5/17/2023 | ExoticCar PlayPlace

Posted on 12/29/2023 9:31:29 AM PST by Signalman

There are a lot of reasons to buy an electric car, but there are also many reasons not to. Today I'm going to explain why it's not quite the time to buy an electric car. When you compare electric vs petrol or ICE cars (internal combustion engine) then you might think you're getting a big improvement when you go electric, but you might just regret buying that car.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ecars; electriccar; evs
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1 posted on 12/29/2023 9:31:29 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Signalman

No problem, already know.


2 posted on 12/29/2023 9:34:08 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Signalman

3 posted on 12/29/2023 9:35:11 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Signalman

I have no burning desire to buy one.


4 posted on 12/29/2023 9:37:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Signalman

It’s only a matter of time before your home owners insurance goes up to cover risk of fire.


5 posted on 12/29/2023 9:38:34 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Signalman

“why it’s not quite the time to buy an electric car”

As far as I’m concerned it’ll NEVER be time to buy one......as a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have one if it was given to me.

EVs haven’t got one damned thing to do with “saving the planet”.


6 posted on 12/29/2023 9:39:14 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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“EVs haven’t got one damned thing to do with “saving the planet”.”

Nailed it in one sentence.


7 posted on 12/29/2023 9:46:26 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: V_TWIN

“As far as I’m concerned it’ll NEVER be time to buy one......as a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have one if it was given to me.”

LOL!


8 posted on 12/29/2023 9:46:31 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ironically you could have a burning if you buy one.


9 posted on 12/29/2023 9:47:22 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: ClearCase_guy

Neither do I.


10 posted on 12/29/2023 9:48:34 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Yes, it’s just a scam.


11 posted on 12/29/2023 9:48:49 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Da Coyote

Yep.


12 posted on 12/29/2023 9:48:59 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: cableguymn

That’s true.


13 posted on 12/29/2023 9:49:10 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They just don’t light you fire?


14 posted on 12/29/2023 9:49:22 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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A few lesser known facts.

Oil consumption in the US is rising. Not declining. EVs are not being sold in significant numbers, or more carefully worded, they are not being driven in any significant numbers. Oil consumption rises because the people buying EVs live in cities and they were not driving much to begin with. If you shut off the gasoline consumption of someone who consumed very little ever, you don’t save much gasoline.

People haul heavier things than in the past. There are big horsepower tractors out there plowing and harvesting bigger and bigger acreage. This consumes oil.

Electric motors are efficient. There’s not much room for improvement there. To go a given distance takes a given number of ampere-hours out of the battery. You have to put that same number back into the battery, and that doesn’t happen fast. The ratio of minutes required to put miles into a battery vs miles put into a gas tank remains 10+X. An order of magnitude. This will not improve. It is a physics limit. Not an engineering limit.


15 posted on 12/29/2023 9:49:51 AM PST by Owen (.)
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To: Signalman

Nonsense, great time to to acquire an EV car. Fire “sales” all over the streets, highways, byways and home garages.


16 posted on 12/29/2023 9:55:45 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: going hot

Shocking!


17 posted on 12/29/2023 9:56:36 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Signalman

Electric Car the government created disaster


18 posted on 12/29/2023 9:57:15 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Owen
A few lesser known facts.

Oil consumption in the US is rising. Not declining.

The dirty little secret about Tesla's charging stations in the middle of nowhere, as was reported on FR, is that the electricity for those chargers comes from diesel generators.

19 posted on 12/29/2023 9:59:35 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Owen

It takes a 40 lb battery to contain the same energy as 6 ounces of gasoline.
The extra vehicle weight takes more energy to move down the road. Roads are failing faster due to excess loads.


20 posted on 12/29/2023 10:03:01 AM PST by oldasrocks
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