• Beaver
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    6 months ago

    Damn 66 miles under the longest range fossil fuel car. The gap keeps closing.

    People need to stop acting like technology will remain stagnant.

    Electric vehicles are the future.

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    6 months ago

    Now make an EV under 1000kg that can do 300km with decent acceleration.

    I honestly do not care to drive 1070km all at once.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly. Nobody needs 1000 km of range outside of a few very niche cases. What we need right now are small affordable EVs. Luckily some of those are coming but there’s still a long way to go.

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        6 months ago

        Renting a ICE for your road trip is probably a better plan than buy an EV with only that use case in mind. Renting a truck the day you have to haul shit is a better idea than driving a truck everyday.

        People need to stop shopping for a vehicle based on the .01% task and focus on how they drive 99.9% of the time.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, but somehow that seems very hard for many people to grasp. Well, actually, people who buy fat SUVs or trucks mainly do so to show off. They’ll always come up with reasons why they really really need that thing but that’s mostly just rationalizations.

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        6 months ago

        While I agree with everything you said, this is one more “complaint” people have used to not get an EV. I’m happy to have this as an option for people who are afraid to change.

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    6 months ago

    Neat this one is actually a car and not some hunk of metal so big that the motor and amount of battery needed to move it would worsen the already miserable range.

    Most people don’t even use the full range of the car regardless of fuel source though. Unless its a cybertruck or so I’ve heard. Being able to plug in at home instead of having to go to the gas station and touch all the handles and buttons all these filthy fucks grime up is a major selling point, if only I could afford literally anything.

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      6 months ago

      Having owned two electric cars in the past, it was so amazing not going to a gas station. I only went back to a hybrid because I needed a truck for construction on my house.