Imagine having to drive to a station each time you need to fill up your tank instead of just plugging it at home and letting it charge while you sleep.
Yup, exactly this. When people ask, I tell them it takes me less than 5 seconds to charge my EV. I plug it in as I get out at night and I have a full “tank” each morning.
Drastically less pollution, but a car is still a car. The tires still shed microplastics (more, actually), the electricity used to charge the batteries come from somewhere, and there’s a carbon footprint involved in building a new cars to replace ones that crash or age out.
Not an argument for keeping ICE vehicles, but holy hell do we need trains and buses.
This isn’t even true. I’ve noticed gas stations seemingly slow their pumps down to show you more ads on those little screens. I used to be able to mute them but that seems rarer and rarer. It often takes me upwards of 10 minutes or more to fill my 20 gallon tank.
I would love to have an electric car I could charge to 80% in 10 min. Hell I’d love to have an electric car.
The cheapest car to drive will almost always be the one you already have. When you need a new car, the used market is actually doing pretty decent. Used EVs can be about as cheap as a basic ICE vehicle now. 1 30-second google search and I found a used EV with 61k miles for $6k, and another for $4k.
Long-term, EVs can also be much cheaper to run, so it actually makes financial sense to make your next vehicle an EV.
In Malaysia, we have cheaper gas than neighbouring Singapore. You should watch the Singaporeans cross the border and all the shenanigans they use to coax/ jimmy/ jank/ whatever their tank to take the last 0.5%. Takes much longer than 10 mins. There’s probably videos on this also.
So still a lot slower than gas, and it’s not even 100%
Imagine having to drive to a station each time you need to fill up your tank instead of just plugging it at home and letting it charge while you sleep.
I would not want to go back to a gas car.
Yup, exactly this. When people ask, I tell them it takes me less than 5 seconds to charge my EV. I plug it in as I get out at night and I have a full “tank” each morning.
Who cares, we also used to ride horse and buggies that took months to get around. Wanna talk about that too?
And now we have much better technology
Like EVs 👍
Yeah, EVs that offer a superior driving experience with none of the pollution ICE vehicles have.
Drastically less pollution, but a car is still a car. The tires still shed microplastics (more, actually), the electricity used to charge the batteries come from somewhere, and there’s a carbon footprint involved in building a new cars to replace ones that crash or age out.
Not an argument for keeping ICE vehicles, but holy hell do we need trains and buses.
No argument there. I try to use renewable energy when I can. At least when I charge at home, I know it’s renewable.
Better means different things to different people
This isn’t even true. I’ve noticed gas stations seemingly slow their pumps down to show you more ads on those little screens. I used to be able to mute them but that seems rarer and rarer. It often takes me upwards of 10 minutes or more to fill my 20 gallon tank.
I would love to have an electric car I could charge to 80% in 10 min. Hell I’d love to have an electric car.
What the fuck? It take me less than 3 minutes to fill 16 gallons what kind of shit pump you going to??
Depends on how busy the gas station is, it’s also much cheaper to charge an EV than pump a comparable amount of gas.
If you’re driving an EV, you don’t care about money. A cheap man drives an old Toyota hybrid, not an EV.
The cheapest car to drive will almost always be the one you already have. When you need a new car, the used market is actually doing pretty decent. Used EVs can be about as cheap as a basic ICE vehicle now. 1 30-second google search and I found a used EV with 61k miles for $6k, and another for $4k.
Long-term, EVs can also be much cheaper to run, so it actually makes financial sense to make your next vehicle an EV.
And we’re getting more and more data saying that the expectations for battery life were pretty far off. They lasting far longer.
In Malaysia, we have cheaper gas than neighbouring Singapore. You should watch the Singaporeans cross the border and all the shenanigans they use to coax/ jimmy/ jank/ whatever their tank to take the last 0.5%. Takes much longer than 10 mins. There’s probably videos on this also.