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To: MinorityRepublican
EV's versus ICE cars is not just black & white, but there are valid reasons for having both. EV's are good around the city or town, if you're just driving 10 or 20 miles a day. People who own EV's rarely have the need to drive hundreds of miles away and get range anxiety. Use it daily, charge it at home once a week or in two weeks. If you plan a long trip, then arrange for charging elsewhere, or use another vehicle.

I have an EV as well as an ICE truck and ICE sports car. The EV is great for daily use. I use the truck for hauling stuff (like the concrete and lumber I bought a couple days ago), and the sports car for long trips to other states. The EV costs almost nothing to operate ($30 for the last dealer checkup), versus hundreds of dollars for the ICE vehicle checkups.

I think car makers are going to be making ICE vehicles for many decades to come, and governments are foolish for pushing to eliminate ICE vehicles, which are necessary and will probably outnumber EV's three to one in the future.

24 posted on 03/07/2021 8:30:17 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat

Using your model of just driving 10-20 miles a day, why would you bother to drop $35000 on a econobox when you could buy one for $15,000. Your fuel cost to electricity ratio would never come close to equilibrium of the extra car cost.

When the Chevy Volt came out, I did the math compared to a Chevy Cruze (same platform)

The equilibrium point is about 300,000 miles and doesn’t take into account buying new batteries. (A GM engineer buddy ran the numbers too and came up at 300,000 miles as well)

Because batteries are such an expensive part of the car, resale value is about zero.

If you only do 10 miles a day in town. a small used car is a far better option, unless you want to be admired for your earth saving skills, until you figure out that your car is powered by burnt coal.


193 posted on 03/08/2021 5:54:27 AM PST by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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