Re:Global electric vehicles sales grew 41% in 2020
by 2trill2spill on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:51PM
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If I can do it my gasoline powered car I expect to be able to do it in a EV. what's so hard to understand about that?
Re:Global electric vehicles sales grew 41% in 2020
by ajross on Thursday April 29, 2021 @09:43PM
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Can your gas powered car go months between fillups doing 20 mile commutes every day? Get 100+ mpg? Do 0-60 in less than 4 seconds?
Stuff is different. Different stuff works better in different situations. The point everyone is making is that long road trips and access to very remote locations are definitely not the sweet spot for an EV, but they're tasks it's capable of doing well enough.
Seriously if you desperately want to do your crazy day trip where you drive for 9 hours, and you own an EV... just rent a Jeep or an Outback.
Re:Global electric vehicles sales grew 41% in 2020
by Retric on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:00PM
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Because you can do things in an EV you can’t do in a gasoline powered car. EV’s can’t win the cannonball run, they can drive to and from every residential address in the US that a gas powered car can. Conversely, I can’t fill up a gasoline powered car at home or in a remote area with solar.
Are you writing a novel adaptation? This is how Heart of Darkness works. It... ends badly.
But sure: expeditions into the untamed metaphorical wilderness of the depths of the human condition probably do want to stick with ICE vehicles for now. But Tesla will probably get the savage wastes a supercharger soon enough.