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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
Only thing stopping me having one is cost.
A 2 year old Polestar 2 with 12,000 miles just cost my buddy slightly less than $25k. You can’t even get an Accord with that age and mileage that cheap these days! Hertz dumped a bunch of them on the market recently, they were too much fun to be a profitable rental so they’re absurdly cheap right now
Sounds good until you have to replace the battery. I want one of the rivian rts but they are still too pricy even used.
you drive your cars for 300000 miles?
My 2010 wagon has 180k and I can still take it to the mountains and not worry about finding a broken charge port on the way home.
How the hell would you break a charge port? If you managed that then no vehicle is safe.
https://teslaweekly.com/2024/05/vandals-cut-every-charging-cable-at-tesla-supercharger-station-in-bay-area/
This is not an isolated incident.
Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/03/tesla-charging-us-network/
Oh, the charging station. Charging port I think would mean the port it plugs into on your car. Yeah, I guess that could be an issue, but it’s not really something that needs to be considered by a consumer. The fact that you’re much less likely to have mechanical issues I think more than makes up for the rare case of vandalism, which can happen to any piece of the infrastructure, for gas and electric.
How is being stranded with no way to charge your EV not a concern for owners?
And yes, potentially gas stations could be vandalized as well – except they aren’t, and charge stations are.
How about you start looking at actual cars instead?
The cost, the fact that I don’t have a parking space at my apartment, and the fact that insurance is expensive.
A way to charge it at home is also a major issue for anybody who lives in an apartment.
Not really. The cities across the world are introducing public chargers in lamp posts and at the kerb. While it is kind of an issue today, it won’t be tomorrow.
Hopefully it won’t be, but charging an electric car is still not a standard thing for apartment buildings to offer tenants. So, for the moment, that’s a major reason for renters to not take the plunge.
My apartment block in London has underground parking with allocated chargers. There are multiple lamp post chargers over here and other types of chargers. So, for the moment it’s already fine.