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Residential rooftop solar panels are an inefficient use of money. They're very expensive and most people don't get battery storage. Going all-electric (vehicles

Residential rooftop solar panels are an inefficient use of money. They're very expensive and most people don't get battery storage. Going all-electric (vehicles and heat pumps) and getting your utility to install solar and wind is much more effective. Or switching to a utility that has green options, in places where such an choice exists. And the choice isn't "smaller ICE car" and "EV tank". There are many EV hatchbacks, sedans, and compact cars available, arguably more models than ICE vehicles in North America. Most ICE drivers are the ones who buy tanks anyway.

spookie 1y ago
EVs are huge compared to ICE cars anywhere but North America.
- tim333 1y ago
  Not necessarily so in the UK. We have small EVs too, eg the Mini. The Renault 5 seems popular https://www.whatcar.com/renault/5/hatchback/review/n27187 https://www.whatcar.com/renault/5/hatchback/review/n27187
sandworm101 1y ago
Teslas are all tanks, the cybertruck being the king of road tanks.
- triceratops 1y ago
  Sedans are tanks?
  - Nasrudith 1y ago
    Electrical vehicles are heavier so I think they are judging them all as 'tanks'. While ignoring that all vehicles, electrical or not have been trending heavier for their size over time anyway.
    - triceratops 1y ago
      > While ignoring that all vehicles, electrical or not have been trending heavier for their size over time anyway Yeah this is what bothers me about all the EV haters. "But but what about the tire dust" "But but what about the battery fires" blah blah. It's like a pathological hatred of anything anyone else might do that you think maybe makes them "better" than you in some way.
- 542354234235 1y ago
  The Ford F Series is the bestselling vehicle in the US (and has been for 4 decades). The F150 is taller and longer than a Cybertruck and only slightly less wide. The F250 is bigger in every aspect, including being up to three and a half feet longer, over a foot wider, and almost a foot taller.

spookie 1y ago

EVs are huge compared to ICE cars anywhere but North America.

tim333 1y ago
Not necessarily so in the UK. We have small EVs too, eg the Mini. The Renault 5 seems popular https://www.whatcar.com/renault/5/hatchback/review/n27187 https://www.whatcar.com/renault/5/hatchback/review/n27187

sandworm101 1y ago

Teslas are all tanks, the cybertruck being the king of road tanks.

triceratops 1y ago
Sedans are tanks?
- Nasrudith 1y ago
  Electrical vehicles are heavier so I think they are judging them all as 'tanks'. While ignoring that all vehicles, electrical or not have been trending heavier for their size over time anyway.
  - triceratops 1y ago
    > While ignoring that all vehicles, electrical or not have been trending heavier for their size over time anyway Yeah this is what bothers me about all the EV haters. "But but what about the tire dust" "But but what about the battery fires" blah blah. It's like a pathological hatred of anything anyone else might do that you think maybe makes them "better" than you in some way.
542354234235 1y ago
The Ford F Series is the bestselling vehicle in the US (and has been for 4 decades). The F150 is taller and longer than a Cybertruck and only slightly less wide. The F250 is bigger in every aspect, including being up to three and a half feet longer, over a foot wider, and almost a foot taller.