noone1:
Carlos from Spain:
noone1:
Carlos from Spain:
Are you kidding noone, what is the big deal of wasting 30 minutes of your day for nothing? its not about being in a hurry, its about wasting your life in the middle of the road recharging a freaking car. To me its crazy that someone could be fine with that... maybe if I was 80 years old... scratch that, not even then
Well, let's think about this for a minute:
Owning an EV means wasting 30 minutes of your day a few times a year when on long trips.
Owning an ICE means wasting time every time you need to fill up.
Who wastes more time over the life of ownership, the guy who can just plug his car in at home in 20 seconds, or the guy who actually has to stop or go out for fuel every week? Even if you live a mile away from the gas station it would take you 5-10 minutes every time you fill up.
How about factoring in an oil change every month? That's gotta take at least 15-30 minutes.
I stop at the gas station once a week, and that's 5 minutes and several stations available on my way to work. I drive 200+ miles trips about twice a week, that's 60 minutes a week changing along the way, though most likely it won't even be along the way since there are few charging places, so 60min + the detour to the nearest changing post. You do the math. Might as well put on an Amish suit and go back to the horse and buggy...
Oil change every month? surely you know that oil changes are needed now every 30k or once a year now a days...
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⇒ Carlos - Porsche 991 Carrera GTS
Meant to write year. But hell, taking a Porsche for it's yearly maintenance and fluids will cost you plenty of time as well.
Only to bring the car to the dealer and pick it up later on. Also, I get a loaner for this time.
Even better with my R8: My sales guy came, picked the car up at my garage, left me a loaner (now I have a RS6 Performance with ABT tuning 700 hp and Akrapovic exhaust ) and when the car is ready, I get it brought back home, fully cleaned and with winter wheels. Amazing.
Besides, you're an outlier. The average is the average. Some are more, some are less, but in the US it's 30 miles per day. Being that mileage can't be negative, even if half the drivers in the world drove 0 miles per day, that would mean everyone else only averaged 60.
The fact of the matter is that long trips are rare for the majority of people.
BTW, stopping for 5 minutes 52x a year is over 4 hours of stopping, at least. That's probably not much less than a Tesla owner would spend charging on their once or twice a year longer drives.
I agree, in the US for short commutes, ELVs could be quite interesting but the charging problem remains in my opinion.
Also, I do not know much about the power grid infrastructure in the US but in Germany, we have a pretty modern one and still got issues because of the shut down nuclear plants. The current coal power plants cannot "stabilize" the power grid enough to deal with power fluctuations, so we need special battery tech to do that instead. Pretty complicated.
The US will have similar problems with the power grid sooner or later.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991 Carrera 4 GTS Cabriolet, Porsche Macan Turbo, Audi R8 V10 Plus (2017), Mini JCW (2015), Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT (2014)