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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by colordrops on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:53AM (#17895798)
It would in all likelihood still be cheaper than gas, but even if it weren't, electric cars are just that much better all around. After you've driven one for a while, you realize what a smelly complicated Rube Goldberg mess the internal combustion engine is.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by Marsymars on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:19PM (#17898711)
To each their own, but I work for a service provider tangential to the auto industry, so I've had the chance to drive a lot of different cars, and I'm pretty ambivalent about electric vs ICE cars. None of the engineering complexity of an ICE (and associated components) is particularly relevant to me as a car owner, and we've been building them for long enough that despite their complexity, they're extremely reliable.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by colordrops on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:25PM (#17899859)
Yes, to each his own. Even with reliability, I find several aspects of ICE undesirable: Slower start time, vibration, noise, inconsistent acceleration, the smell of gas at the pump and exhaust from the tailpipe, the pollution, the maintenance schedule, less cargo space, and the greater decrease in reliability with time.