Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working

Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by throwaway2037 on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:11AM (#38128197)

Yeah, yet another bullshit EV post. I just Googled the distance between two unrealistic endpoints in SF & LA: Union Square (SF) and Union Station (LA). It is 380 miles. When they stop to use the toilet and stretch halfway, they can recharge in Central Valley. In 10 years of talking to "EV deniers / haters", nothing you can say will convince them. And, seriously, how often is the _general_ population driving 380 miles to between two major cities? Once or twice a year at max.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by stavros on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:14AM (#38128227)

Yeah, I don't understand this article. Who doesn't want an electric? I drive around the city all the time, 100 miles once a month, more than 400 maybe once a year. The disadvantages affect me once a year, the advantages every day.

To me, an EV is a no-brainer, in fact I was test driving the Mercedes EV just yesterday. The only thing stopping me from getting one is that my ten-year-old car is still fine. Definitely not getting a new ICE, though.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by SirMaster on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:01AM (#38128885)

People who have no easy way to charge?

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by kjkjadksj on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:21AM (#38130151)

Seriously. I live in a huge city and chargers are still so rare. Even when they put them in new construction parking garages, thats like six spots with a charger for the entire garage of a couple hundred other spots. If you don’t have your own charger I can’t imagine a single landlord fronting the 10k to install one. Even if the laws forced their hand with it, thats just going to be passed to the renter somehow and we are already quite rent burdened here on average.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by gambiting on Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:57AM (#38138766)

>>can’t imagine a single landlord fronting the 10k to install one

I don't know where you got this number from - a new 7.2kW charger is £400, and I'm sure you can get it cheaper if you buy several hundred of them. They are hardly expensive devices now. Yes there's the cost of installation too - but 10k is an extremely unreasonable number.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by JohnFen on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:49AM (#38130561)

I don't want an EV. Not because of a disinclination to have an electric car -- in theory, it would be fine. But I can't charge at home and all of the EVs I see on the market have at least one showstopper about them.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by pandaman on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:43PM (#38131283)

I, for one. Even though I live in a house with a driveway where I charge my PHEV, I had driven it too many times with zero charge to be wanting to get a non-hybrid electric car. While some of these times might not have happened with a bigger battery, many still would: having construction taking over the driveway and unable to charge, staying in a hotel and unable to charge, the city losing power and unable to charge would have happened with a bigger battery too.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by Amezarak on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:34AM (#38130361)

Weekend custody exchanges are a pretty common case.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by Fatnino on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:46PM (#38131346)

I don't need to stop and stretch. I'm a healthy young person.

Furthermore, if I did want to include such stops, why would I want to confine myself to the dingy dirty corner of some backwater Walmart parking lot?

With my high range ice car I can stop anywhere along the scenic way for as long or as short as I want.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by gambiting on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:38PM (#38133960)

>>I'm a healthy young person.

You know that this is only a temporary condition, right?

>>why would I want to confine myself to the dingy dirty corner of some backwater Walmart parking lot?

I don't know, why would you? Are those the only charging options you have?

>>With my high range ice car I can stop anywhere along the scenic way for as long or as short as I want.

You can do that in an electric car too.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by Fatnino on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:52PM (#38134849)

When I get old, I can buy an EV of the future. It will for sure have better range and faster charging that what's on the market now.

Most busy corridors like sf-LA have the well known charge stations full and backed up making the delay multiple times longer.

The point about stopping wherever is that my stops won't have to be near any out of the way chargers. Of course an EV can stop wherever, but it also requires a pilgramage to somewhere I never wanted to go.

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Re:Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working by petre on Saturday November 04, 2023 @03:09AM (#38138808)

> I don't need to stop and stretch. I'm a healthy young person.

Don't do it and health problems could quickly appear. Like back pain, herniated discs, at the very least. Not to mention the risk of drowsiness induced car accidents.

I don'l like to refuel in a busy gas station either, but stopping and stretching is recommended.

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