I’m sure electricity and insurance is also free!
Can’t afford gas :capitalist-laugh:
Can’t afford an EV :capitalist-laugh:
I’ll just walk to work in the ditch by the road bc there are no sidewalks, then get hit by yellow Dodge Charger
Ah great! Where does electricity comes from again?
Yeah, from the special 220-volt outlet that you have installed in your garage. What, you don’t have a garage? :hillary-apartment:
Lets not be disingenuous. Even though public transport is the way to go, supported by some shuttles in special use cases and the rare electrical car in use, Electrical Vehicles are the way to go.
There is a reason that a large amount of new cars in China are electrical ones and it isn’t the case that electrical cars have to be expensive - in fact they are typically average priced and can be cheap, especially if you compare the virtually non existing gas costs (15-25$ per month). Furthermore the lifetime cost of repair seem to be cheaper for electrical consumer vehicles.
Everything I said isn’t true for Teslas though, they ought to burn. Also in the US the insurance for electrical cars is surprisingly expensive compared to Vietnam and Germany.
It is coming from cleaner and cleaner sources. Compare the MPGe from 2015 to 2018.
In the midwest you went from “a prius is more efficient” to “a bit better than a prius” in just three years, a clean doubling, but not all that great. At the same time, places like NY and CA went from “significantly better than a prius” to “2-6 Prius equivalents”, once again in just 3 years. I’m interested to see where things get a few more years from now (keeping in mind that the most recent data I found is already three years old now).
The power grid is getting cleaner, and an electric vehicle will naturally be in lockstep with that. There are many other concerns, including “cars bad” of course, but this is not one of them imo.
dumb as doorknobs capitalists like musk think the barrier to mass ev acceptance is that theyre not “cool”, thats stupid fucking shit you would only come up with if money was flowing out your ass. the real reason no one switches is theyre all expensive luxury cars and 2022 models with a billion robots staring up your ass. give me an electric car with crank windows and no electronics but a radio with dials that i can buy for 5k and i bet you a lot more people would switch.
GIVE US THE TOYOTA CORROLAS AND HONDA CIVICS OF ELECTRIC CARS
Aren’t there really bad long-term issues with EVs? Like the battery deteriorates every year and needs to be replaced for like 10k after 10 years? We don’t even know how any Teslas hold up over 10 years yet.
