Electric vs Gas
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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • Emoba@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    So, I get where you’re going, but first: it takes much longer, but I do it at home while I’m asleep, so that doesn’t really count. It’s more the opposite, I really enjoy not having to stop at gas stations anymore. You just never wake up to an empty car anymore.

    Then, for longer trips, it obviously takes more time to recharge than to refuel. But as a family of five, we had breaks before we had an ev. Last time we made a longer trip, we picked up my inlaws and wanted to visit some other family members that were about one and a half charge stops away. We took three breaks because someone had to pee, someone was hungry or someone wanted whatever. If you’re a flying sales person that that wants to drive 2000 km in a day it’ll obviously be annoying. For anybody else that takes some reasonable stops along the way, I doubt it changes much. Just stop the car at a charger and grab a coffee at the next supermarket. Once you had that you can usually drive again.

    • LordSingulothEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      Thats great, I’m glad it works for you and your family. But that anecdote doesn’t make it work for everyone yet.

      • Emoba@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        32·
        5 months ago

        You know, it actually does. Taking a 20 minute break every 3 hours doesn’t hurt anybody badly. That’s all it takes to no longer locally burn fossil fuels and reduce the emissions significantly. I get the problem that electric cars are too expensive and I understand that some people can’t afford them. But this entitlement of “my precious 20 minutes that I can spend doing some situps or have a coffee are too much to ask from me, so I’d rather keep burning carbon” is just nonsense. People should walk more and bike more and use more trains. However, if none of that works, electric cars are a working alternative to produce much less carbon dioxide. But if a slight inconvenience of taking not even the recommended pauses while driving is already too much to ask, this planet is fucked I guess.