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Gasoline is a pain in the ass. You have to go out and fill your car up in dirty gas stations once or twice per week, and the time you’ll need gas is invariably
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Gasoline is a pain in the ass. You have to go out and fill your car up in dirty gas stations once or twice per week, and the time you’ll need gas is invariably the moment when you’re in the biggest hurry and can’t waste the time filling up. EVs, on the other hand, eliminate all of that. It is as though a magical fairy comes to my house every night (and again between every minor drive) and fills my “tank” to the top. Charging only becomes noticeable on long road trips, which is (for me) at most 2-3x per year, and then the superchargers make it into a slightly longer bathroom/meal break.
- DamnInteresting 4y agoAnd don't forget that you can alternatively rent an ICE car for long road trips.
- jjav 4y ago> the time you’ll need gas is invariably the moment when you’re in the biggest hurry and can’t waste the time filling up If you're actually in a hurry, you can always fill up an ICE car in a couple minutes whereas the EV, not so much. For example, we had to evacuate during the California wildfires a few years back. The EV wasn't full and didn't have enough range to get to a useful destination, so we left it behind. Luckily we're privileged to have many cars, so we took two of the ICE cars. One was near empty, so we filled it in under 5 minutes and were on our way. But occasionally we think: imagine if we'd only had the EV and no way to get out ASAP? (Fortunately nothing happened and the house and EV survived fine. But many others nearby weren't so lucky.)