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Three main reasons I do not drive an EV: 1. electricity is expensive 2. they take long to charge 3. the range isn't good It will take a while for me and many o

Three main reasons I do not drive an EV: 1. electricity is expensive 2. they take long to charge 3. the range isn't good It will take a while for me and many of my peers except those who want a status symbol.

Analemma_ 4y ago
I drive an EV because all three of your points are wrong. Electricity is cheap (I spend about a fifth of what I did on gas), it charges overnight so the charging rate is irrelevant, and I have never even come close to running out of range.
- haliskerbas 4y ago
  Curious how much both you and sibling pay per kWh
  - NotYourLawyer 4y ago
    I didn’t realize there was anywhere in the world where electricity is more expensive per mile than gasoline.
  - Analemma_ 4y ago
    $0.13/kWh
    - justoreply 4y ago
      In Germany is around 0.50€/kWh or $0.53/kWh
  - timbit42 4y ago
    Curious how much you pay. Is it over $0.65 per kWh? I pay $0.1161 cents per kWh.
rootusrootus 4y ago
Three main reasons I do drive an EV: 1. electricity is a fifth of the cost of gasoline, 2. it charges while I sleep so I don't spend any time waiting for fueling, and 3. the range is way more than I drive in a day. Truly, it's #2 that I love the most. Instead of spending hours of my life every year sitting at a gas pump, my car is always fully charged every morning. #1 is cool, too, of course, it costs me $200/year to fuel my EV, where I was spending almost that every month with my last ICEV. #3 is a minimum requirement, of course.
- rhaway84773 4y ago
  Imagine if someone released a cellphone tomorrow that fully charged in 5 minutes, and last 4 days on a single charge, but you had to go to special charging centers, none of which are within 15-20 mins of your house, and pull out your credit card and pay for the charging each time, all the while breathing in noxious fumes at the charging center. I suspect only a small fraction of people would opt for that option. It would be the people who are constantly using their phone because they do their work entirely from it for 15-20 hrs a day. That’s pretty much what the car market should be like. The only reason people throw suspicion at it is because they’ve not experienced the comfort of never having to the gas station and simply waking up to a fully charged car like they do with their phone.

Analemma_ 4y ago

I drive an EV because all three of your points are wrong. Electricity is cheap (I spend about a fifth of what I did on gas), it charges overnight so the charging rate is irrelevant, and I have never even come close to running out of range.

haliskerbas 4y ago
Curious how much both you and sibling pay per kWh
- NotYourLawyer 4y ago
  I didn’t realize there was anywhere in the world where electricity is more expensive per mile than gasoline.
- Analemma_ 4y ago
  $0.13/kWh
  - justoreply 4y ago
    In Germany is around 0.50€/kWh or $0.53/kWh
- timbit42 4y ago
  Curious how much you pay. Is it over $0.65 per kWh? I pay $0.1161 cents per kWh.

rootusrootus 4y ago

Three main reasons I do drive an EV: 1. electricity is a fifth of the cost of gasoline, 2. it charges while I sleep so I don't spend any time waiting for fueling, and 3. the range is way more than I drive in a day. Truly, it's #2 that I love the most. Instead of spending hours of my life every year sitting at a gas pump, my car is always fully charged every morning. #1 is cool, too, of course, it costs me $200/year to fuel my EV, where I was spending almost that every month with my last ICEV. #3 is a minimum requirement, of course.

rhaway84773 4y ago
Imagine if someone released a cellphone tomorrow that fully charged in 5 minutes, and last 4 days on a single charge, but you had to go to special charging centers, none of which are within 15-20 mins of your house, and pull out your credit card and pay for the charging each time, all the while breathing in noxious fumes at the charging center. I suspect only a small fraction of people would opt for that option. It would be the people who are constantly using their phone because they do their work entirely from it for 15-20 hrs a day. That’s pretty much what the car market should be like. The only reason people throw suspicion at it is because they’ve not experienced the comfort of never having to the gas station and simply waking up to a fully charged car like they do with their phone.