Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars

Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars by jtriangle on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:22PM (#38962795)

Good on you, you're an early adopter of electric personal transport tech. We need people like you to tough it out until the R&D dollars yield something that's actually at feature parity with what already exists currently.

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Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:39AM (#38978035)

Does "parity" mean "equal or better in every possible way"?

Because overall, if you ignore old and new and just analyze both on their merits, I'd say we have rough parity already.

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Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars by jtriangle on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:30PM (#38983621)

Parity means you can charge your car in 5 minutes and then drive 3-400 miles, as you can in a gas car, access to repair facilities, and an average lifetime equivalent to regular cars.

We're not there yet, we will be, but it's going to take some time. The people who say 'electric cars suck' are the same sorts of people who leave negative reviews of a beta product, missing the forest for the trees in my book.

Same goes for the people who ignore critique and offer only praise. Gas/Diesel cars have a hundred years of engineering behind them. Their capabilities exist with purpose, and ignoring that is folly.

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Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @04:58PM (#38985010)

> Parity means you can charge your car in 5 minutes and then drive 3-400 miles, as you can in a gas car, access to repair facilities, and an average lifetime equivalent to regular cars.

So yes, it sounds like your definition of "parity" means it can do everything a gas car can and more.

If electric cars were first, would you demand that gas cars need to be able to power your house to reach "parity"?

I don't think you're using a good definition of parity. Two things with different strengths and weaknesses can be at parity if they mostly even out.

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Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars by porkbeer on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:51AM (#38991491)

Electric cars have been around 150 years. Yes, parity means... parity in practicaluty to the end user.

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Re:Hertz to Sell 20k EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars by Dylan16807 on Monday January 15, 2024 @11:51PM (#39009650)

There are multiple kinds of practicality where electric cars do better, and you're skipping them for some reason.

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