Small clarification: the 19% includes Plug-In Hybrids, 13% for BEV only
Yes, though battery-only range on a lot of the newer PEHVs is high enough that if you actually charge them, you don’t end up using gas except on road trips.
The average commute is 10 miles, so that has been the case for years for anybody that can charge at work
A lot of people can’t do that, and it’s a big deal that people have the range for weekend day outings without needing gas.
Oh, no I don’t think any PHEV’s have good weekend outing range yet, for that I’d say 100 miles range
Queue all the deniers rushing in here to point out every little issue with EVs…
Queue all the fans rushing in here to point out how they are saving the enviroment driving a huge ass SUV with lithium mined by poor african children.
Cars are bad. All cars, yours too.
That is rather easy:
They are cars!
It’s easy enough to say that (and I agree we have a car problem), but it’s not really realistic to shift from a car dependent to a non-car world overnight, no matter how much it is the right thing to do.
There will, necessarily, be a transition period.
I mean they’re still pretty bad, especially if we keep making the things as stupid big as we are. They’re not exactly little issues.
I’ll start. Not specifically an EV problem so much as manufacturer and distributor problem, but I would appreciate if when I buy a new electric vehicle, I don’t have to pay a subscription service to use features like seat warmers, or essentially pay for a new car if the battery protector cap is slightly bigger than it is supposed to, and be told I’ll be raped in a parking lot if I ask a third party repair shop to fix it, or lose all warranty if I fix it myself.
Fair enough, but that’s not going to be unique to EVs, is it?
It is when it comes to car batteries because third party car mechanics cannot fix these unless the manufacturing companies share how to, which they’re lobbying very hard to not have to do. (And make these commercials where you get raped in parking lots, to scare people away from third party repair shops)
You are essentially forced to scrap your EV and buy a new one because the manufacturing companies charge you the same price as the entire car to replace the battery that they actually don’t know the full extend of the damage on.
Now, how good for the environment do you think it is to scrap entire cars for possibly a minor issue?
Louis Rossmann makes a ton of great videos addressing the problem with the EV industry and fights for the right to repair in various industries.
I am not against the idea of EVs. I just would not spend my money on one until the right to repair has been enforced on EVs. But also, I do not own a car nor do I have a license because I can rely on public transport where I live, so I probably won’t buy any car in my lifetime.
