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Electric cars are still ridiculously expensive, don't have the same range and features etc, why would I want one? I live in a cold place, cold isn't good for ba

Electric cars are still ridiculously expensive, don't have the same range and features etc, why would I want one? I live in a cold place, cold isn't good for batteries and engines heat the car inside, with electric cars heating reduces the range drastically

Sankozi 4y ago
We need to tell that to people in Norway where 85% of new cars are plugin vehicles. Electric cars can run on average 100 km/h over 10 hours if you plan your trip well (and have a bit of luck with free spots on plugin stations). Apart from charging time I don't see where plugin vehicle is worse than ICE one when it comes to features.
- packetlost 4y ago
  > Electric cars can run on average 100 km/h over 10 hours That's below highway speed here, and everything is at least twice the distance in America than you think it is. The nearest major city from me is 240km away, the second is 435km and it gets -34C here (the average in winter being about -10C). It just isn't feasible if you aren't in a dense metro area and only ever use your vehicle to commute (which is by far not the case).
  - adrianN 4y ago
    Average trip lengths in America are not that much longer than in Europe. On the rather rare occasions when you do several hundred kilometers in a single day, stopping for fifteen minutes to recharge every two hours or so doesn't increase travel time all that much. You have to take breaks anyway.
marssaxman 4y ago
> Electric cars are still ridiculously expensive, don't have the same range and features etc, why would I want one? Are you under the age of 65? Do you have children? Do you expect that you will ever have children? If so, you want either an electric car or no car at all, in preference to a fossil-fuel-powered car, because you want the planet to remain hospitable for humans.
benhurmarcel 4y ago
That's exactly why they plan to either ban ICE or tax the hell out of them. Because society needs you to switch to electric, so they need to make you want one. It's not fast enough to make electrics better, so we need to make ICE worse as well.

Sankozi 4y ago

We need to tell that to people in Norway where 85% of new cars are plugin vehicles. Electric cars can run on average 100 km/h over 10 hours if you plan your trip well (and have a bit of luck with free spots on plugin stations). Apart from charging time I don't see where plugin vehicle is worse than ICE one when it comes to features.

packetlost 4y ago
> Electric cars can run on average 100 km/h over 10 hours That's below highway speed here, and everything is at least twice the distance in America than you think it is. The nearest major city from me is 240km away, the second is 435km and it gets -34C here (the average in winter being about -10C). It just isn't feasible if you aren't in a dense metro area and only ever use your vehicle to commute (which is by far not the case).
- adrianN 4y ago
  Average trip lengths in America are not that much longer than in Europe. On the rather rare occasions when you do several hundred kilometers in a single day, stopping for fifteen minutes to recharge every two hours or so doesn't increase travel time all that much. You have to take breaks anyway.

marssaxman 4y ago

> Electric cars are still ridiculously expensive, don't have the same range and features etc, why would I want one? Are you under the age of 65? Do you have children? Do you expect that you will ever have children? If so, you want either an electric car or no car at all, in preference to a fossil-fuel-powered car, because you want the planet to remain hospitable for humans.

benhurmarcel 4y ago

That's exactly why they plan to either ban ICE or tax the hell out of them. Because society needs you to switch to electric, so they need to make you want one. It's not fast enough to make electrics better, so we need to make ICE worse as well.