The price. The price is the problem for all us poors.

If you read comments on Instagram and the like, people hate electric cars because…

…they don’t do the vroom-vroom noise.

This comic is clearly about lawn mowers people. Who discusses cars when wearing a hat like that?

I feel like this is directed towards ICE vs EV cars. If that’s the case, it’s sort of frustrating.

EVs have some very real drawbacks. Even if those drawbacks are solvable problems, they are still problems right now. Pushing this narrative that EVs are universally better or that the biggest hurdle to adoption is irrational consumer sentiment will just make people feel gaslit. It’ll also make people more hesitant to adopt later on, because they’ll be skeptical of positive reviews that are honest.

I would absolutely love to have an EV. But they are very expensive, especially compared to the gas-powered car I already own.

He is not wrong, but he is not adressing the actual criticism of electric vehicles, so it is kind of pointless.

Electric cars is not the solution. Sure, it’s an improvement, but for a real solution you need to get people out of personal vehicles on onto public transportation. Trains, trams, busses, whatever. Build it in a way that doesn’t suck. Assuming american, the US had (past tense) amazing train/tram networks decades ago. Every warehouse had a rail spur, and since walking was considered ok people weren’t obese fatasses.

I drive a scooter. It is possible to live without a car, although it does have some difficulties sometimes. If your job is within 10 miles of your home or less, then you don’t need a car for your commute. If I can do it so can you. I’d still rather take a bus, if it existed.

Gasoline motors can be recharged in a couple of minutes.

It’s true. But a v-twin motorcycle like a Ducati or Moto Guzzi ignites your balls like no electric motor can.

Is this a joke I’m not getting, or just a statement?

Actually, piston engines are really bad a torque. It’s why they need a flywheel or a large amount of pistons.

The reason I’m pretty much undecided about EVs is the rare metals in the batteries. The pollution by gathering and the inhumane treatment of the workers who extract these resources. I’m still hoping for better alternatives in the energy storage medium

I’ll keep my ICE and ride a bike. I’ll still do less environmental damage than you because I am human powered for all but the trips to the mountains, and then I don’t have to worry about being stranded without a plug.

And I have yet to hear a convincing argument that taking my perfectly working vehicle off the road to buy another manufactured product is still more environmentally friendly than… not buying anything at all.

I don’t give a fuck about initial torque. I’m going to be laughing in my wheetabix when there’s not a single EV older than a decade on their original batteries.

Downvotes don’t make me wrong, chuds.

Because “better overall” is a silly concept to use here, and is bring deliberately done to “both sides” the debate.

For driving really fast: petrol

For not killing our planets ability to sustain himan life: electric

Its not that hard

What interests me is the terror threshold. People are just so much more, including me, afraid of electric motors vs ICE per kw.