It’s only hypocritical if you claim you are buying an EV for environmental reasons. If you buy one for the reason I did - because it’s a fun toy - then there is no hypocrisy whatsoever.
I have really enjoyed it over the last 6 years and am about to get another. Also, it was such a great feeling of risk mitigation when there were disrupted gas supplies in the Southeast and the resulting runs on the gas stations left many empty.
I basically smooth out gas price fluctuations by driving my EV more when gas prices spike, or driving my other ICE vehicles more when gas prices go down.
I love both EV and ICE, I just don’t understand why they have to be so polarizing. EV’s are really fun and have made driving more interesting.
It’s a fun toy now, while it’s basically just the early adopters using EVs.
because it’s a fun toy ....... I’ll give you that, as long as you didn’t get a tax break just for buying one.
As for your risk mitigation, it would be irrelevant during rolling blackouts and when power shuts down like it did last winter in Texas.
So, you can afford a toy that others can’t. I don’t care. But, it seems a bit pompous to have a ‘great feeling of risk mitigation’ when the pipeline went to sh*t last year because this country has ZERO leadership and corporate America is pretty much incompetent. Not to say that you have to feel the pain like everyone else, but I don’t see it’s anything to be doing cartwheels over.
As for the polarization.....Easy Peasy....it’s being rammed down our throats - tax breaks as an incentive to buy one when the same incentives aren’t available to anyone else for anything else(Ga was giving rich folks who could afford a $100k Tesla a $5k tax break..I’m not about giving a guy who can afford a $100k Sunday Driver tax money) - it’s places like California more or less outlawing gas engines in the future - they’ve outlawed 2-cycle engines, cars and trucks soon to follow.
I have a question for you or anyone else that cares to answer: Ford is really pushing their EV F150. It shows the truck powering up a house during a power outage. Just how much electricity is stored in that truck? Folks who have standby generators have to do some serious planning and math if/when the power goes out and they turn to a generator, unless they have one so big it’ll power the whole house. And if that’s being done, I’d say they’d have to have, at least, a 15k generator running on gas, diesel or propane. How long will that F150 last? They’re making it out like you can drive it home and then run your house for a while with no juice being generated.
I assert that EVs are worse for the environment when you factor in the mining for the minerals necessary for the batteries, and the disposal of said batteries.