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Haha, so many mixed reviews, but yeah, thinning out the weeds! There are too many peculiar things with new cars; as a new ride, which I've experienced with my current position, there will be too many changes.
I really think EVs have hit a maturity in the market and a wall. They had success in the beginning quite frankly due to let's face it a form of socialism. Musk and Tesla benefitted from massive handouts, the public subsidizing these cars with $10,000 tax credits etc etc. Now the market has expanded to places where gas isn't $6 a gallon and tax credits are harder to find predictably sales are slowing. If we got rid of the tax credits and started charging EVs the road taxes they have evaded for years etc the sales would crater more. I am in the Midwest, my neighborhood is as ideal as it could be for EVs, very high household income, average commute just a few miles to work or shopping, minimum 3 car garage on houses, you name it and out of 100 houses we have 4 houses that have EVs and even those 4 houses all still also have gas cars too. The most damning part is the guy who first had EVs in here, multiple Teslas including a Model S Plaid and Mercedes EQS sedan has now gone back to gas vehicles, new full size Range Rover and Mercedes S Class and Audi Q8. Almost everyone would maybe switch to a hybrid but generally don't want full EV. My neighbor's son is literally an EV and hybrid engineer for a Top 5 auto company and he doesn't want to drive an EV. With gas in high $2 to low $3 range, honestly what is the incentive to drive an EV? I can fill up once a week, sometimes once every 2 weeks in less than 3 minutes.
No offense, but I would hate to live in your neighborhood.
lol NO. you can get a tesla model Y for $35k after fed rebate direct from tesla.
And then you have an overproduced crappy vehicle that may catch fire at any moment AND you'll money to toxic man child Elon. I'll take a top end fisker over the base model Tesla
Lol this is all false information and they've been trying for 130 years to get ICE above 30%.
I can't tell if you are trolling or not
Diesel engines have been 40%+ for decades
Mercedes F1 racing cars have been 50%+
Mazda sky active on small engines high as 56%. Granted Mazda has been in controlled tests.
You also can't deny or ignore, the harm production and disposal of batteries cause.
Petroleum is used in production of EV cars
And 70% ish of electricity to power EV comes from coal/gas/nuclear.
If you refuse to see the facts and continue to call it misinformation, good luck to you and your life in the bubble
Electric will be just as expensive as gas if most people switch.
The only reason petroleum isn't $1 a gallon is politics and taxes. People have no idea just how vast hydrocarbon resources are in the US.
Of course you could buy solar panels. 80kwh battery for your model y, so you will need about x200 100w panels to fully charge it daily.
Or put another way, you will need a 100w panel for every 1.25 miles you drive daily.
Hope you have a big lawn.
Who uses 80kw per day? A 10kw solar system without battery is plenty for most people.
If petroleum prices drop, so will electricity prices. And realistically, they're never going to drop. But at least in the next 4 years they definitely will not drop. EV with or without the government subsidies are still more economical in certain parts of the country and world. In northeast maybe not, but definitely in California where most cars are sold
Do you understand that it will take longer to replace the battery than charging at supercharger? This is not a small battery in gas car
I'm in Orange county CA. I have 3 level 3 charging stations in 20 mile radius. Everything else is level 1 or 2. Until level 3 or 4 are readily available, I don't think your point holds any real world application because majority of the time, you can't take advantage of the fast charging
Nio does swaps under 5 minutes. Granted idk how swapping a semi trucks battery would take. Also, charging a semi battery would take longer than 15 minutes
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USA could try Nio's solution of replacing batteries instead of charging batteries at truck stops.
takes 3-5 min
But dont think thats gonna happen
I love EVs but one without factory backing and a half baked one like this is just asking for trouble.
They are on that trajectory though.
https://www.reuters.com/business/...024-03-18/
Rivian the only other American alternative
Ionic is ok
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Diesel engines have been 40%+ for decades
Mercedes F1 racing cars have been 50%+
Mazda sky active on small engines high as 56%. Granted Mazda has been in controlled tests.
You also can't deny or ignore, the harm production and disposal of batteries cause.
Petroleum is used in production of EV cars
And 70% ish of electricity to power EV comes from coal/gas/nuclear.
If you refuse to see the facts and continue to call it misinformation, good luck to you and your life in the bubble
The only reason petroleum isn't $1 a gallon is politics and taxes. People have no idea just how vast hydrocarbon resources are in the US.
Of course you could buy solar panels. 80kwh battery for your model y, so you will need about x200 100w panels to fully charge it daily.
Or put another way, you will need a 100w panel for every 1.25 miles you drive daily.
Hope you have a big lawn.
If petroleum prices drop, so will electricity prices. And realistically, they're never going to drop. But at least in the next 4 years they definitely will not drop. EV with or without the government subsidies are still more economical in certain parts of the country and world. In northeast maybe not, but definitely in California where most cars are sold
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Nio does swaps under 5 minutes. Granted idk how swapping a semi trucks battery would take. Also, charging a semi battery would take longer than 15 minutes
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