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.
No problem, already know.
I have no burning desire to buy one.
It’s only a matter of time before your home owners insurance goes up to cover risk of fire.
“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”.
“EVs haven’t got one damned thing to do with “saving the planet”.”
Nailed it in one sentence.
“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!
Ironically you could have a burning if you buy one.
Neither do I.
Yes, it’s just a scam.
Yep.
That’s true.
They just don’t light you fire?
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.
Nonsense, great time to to acquire an EV car. Fire “sales” all over the streets, highways, byways and home garages.
Shocking!
Electric Car the government created disaster
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.
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.
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