Tesla means Stupid.
I’m surprised this article got past Yahoo’s editors.
Expensive to run, depreciate quickly, cannot be economically repaired, no resale value, limited range, poor performance in cold weather and may burst into flames.
The EVs are quite heavy due to the size of the battery required. I’m hearing that they go through tires at a very high rate.
Is it safe to travel to Penzance or is it still infested with pirates?
Would be nice to see the costs when slow charging at home. Interesting the Greens want to limit electricity production to unreliable sources, so what does that do to your transportation reliability? Except for the higher cost, government subsidies, lack of recycling, fire issues, lack of range and easy fast recharging, I have no real issues with EVs and their owners. To each their own……
30 minute recharge? No thanks!
Every time that I drive past a charging station, I smile, thinking just how lucky I am to not have to wait 30 minutes or more, often in a DEI area without anyone else around, when my gasoline car needs to ‘fill up’.
I also smile because I can drive on a set of tires at least twice as long, knowing that the amount of microscopic particles that I’m leaving on road surfaces, to be washed into our rivers and streams, is half or less per mile than an EV.
In before our resident Leftists check-in to tell us about the wonders of EVs!!!
EV ,the disposable razor of transport
To feel good about saving planet earth is worth it.
Yeah, but think of the virtue display points!
Another good reason in a long list of reasons not to own an EV. So...how do we get certain people in our government educated as to this fact so they will quit promoting them? I think the manufacturers have mostly figured it out by now, at least in an economic sense.
I didn’t know they still measured things in miles and gallons in UK and Europe.
“”EV owners can fill up at home while sleeping.””
Kalifornia has, or will soon, mandate that all EVs have bidirectional charging capability. The People’s Republic of Kalifornia wants to use all the energy stored in all the EVs when the grid needs it. One democRAT creep explained that at night, when most people are charging their EV, the owners are asleep. The government will have access to “all that electricity.” So, you go to sleep, wake up in the morning, and Big Brother decided he “needs” the electricity more than you do.
“”rapid and ultra-rapid chargers””
Fast charging damages the batteries, and shortens the lifespan of the batteries. IF, IF there is a relationship between the ultra fast charging and EV battery fires, the Drive By Media will never publish it.
My Ford Lightning costs $8.77 to charge overnight at home if I went from 0-100%. That will get me around 310 miles of range (50-50 highway-city). In the winter that reduces to around 280. It is the most comfortable and quietest vehicle I have ever owned. No oil changes or tune ups. I drive a lot between Reno and Sacramento and top off at my in laws. It’s like Trump says. They are great cars/trucks but you should not be forced to buy one.
Dumb article. If you assert that an EV gets poor economy AND assume that everyone with them always uses the commercial fast chargers, voila the math goes one way.
A typical newer model gets 3.6 or up, not 3.2. Home electricity is on average $0.164 per kWh in the US. Plug those numbers in and the equation flips.
Now, from cold behavior or range or tire wear it’s fair to count real cost issues, but “gaming” the numbers is foolish. That’s like adding up the cost of coffee assuming people only go to Starbucks and including the price of some pastry in the mix.
Given that Lithium is mined primarily for EV’s and EV’s are really primarily fueled by coal, the carbon footprint of manufacture and use will never be offset. There is also loss in each conversion from coal -> electricity -> charging -> discharging.
Batteries heavy.
More expensive tires that wear out faster.
More wear on roads and infrastructure.
Higher insurance premiums to cover repairs and liability.
No thanks.
There is a place for EV’s but as a replacement for everybody’s car is not it.
I would be the perfect person for an EV (as a second car). I live only 5 miles from where I work. I could easily drive it to work and back and do any running around without worrying about a recharge till I got home.
But, no way would I have it as my only car. Any long distance trips or out of my regular area, I would not want to rely on electric.