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  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • Now that we’re getting a few 10 year old EVs , we see they easily have 80+% of battery health (except of course the Leaf). That’s not as good as new but you might still drive 4 hours on an old tesla

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  • Ok, I’ve never had to wait at a supercharger. I’ve never seen a broken one. I never plan ahead for one. My cars trip planner just inserts them in navigation wherever they need to be and never plans more than 20 minutes, to stay on the steep section of the charging curve

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  • Similar for putting chargers at gas stations. Why would you want that? Most local gas stations should be shut down as no longer needed. Charging is a little different from refueling and one of those differences means never again going to a local gas station

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  • Part of the infrastructure funding for EVs was targeted to help landlords and HOAs. Plus my state had landlord incentives similar to those for purchasers. Yes we know those need a kickstart

    The other thing is the timing. None of those mandates were immediate. Most of them were ten years or more, only affecting new cars. So we have a full decade to get chargers in more places and at least another decade where most cars were still ICE: we can do it

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  • You can only try. My ex’s HOA did bring chargers up for a vote, but tabled it when they realized how limited the electrical service for common areas was

    While I don’t know whether it would have passed, it’s a step

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  • Ok, searching for the perfect hairy dude in a bikini in snow picture as a humorous reply, means I now have a browser history no one can ever see ….. and I didnt find one that was funny

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  • Meanwhile my kids are at college. I’ll take that two door suv because most of the year it’ll be just me. Actually I’m hoping the seats are easily removable so most of the year i can leave them out and just have a wide open cargo/dog/camping area

    Speculation but ….. some of the pictures are a bit awkward looking, leading me to speculate there is no real frame on the back, just the structure from the pickup cab. Maybe that “roll bar” is sufficient for back seat passengers too

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  • What do you think of the Slate truck? While I’m not interested in a truck, the simplification and lack of gadgets appeal to me enough that I may consider it anyway

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  • Surprisingly it is. The trip planner on my car tries to keep you on the steep part of the charging curve and has never planned more than 20 minutes.

    It’s actually kind of annoying since you want to do something while waiting but it’s not long enough

    • one long stop I walked a couple times around Walmart but didn’t have time to shop
    • another long stop the time was up before we found the food court so I had to stay longer
    • I witnessed true southern hospitality where i tried to walk a couple blocks while waiting at a longer stop, but some business opened their gate to let me cut through

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  • Yeah but it’s also easy to understand. Even knowing it’s overblown, I had some amount of range anxiety until I took a long road trip and found out how easy it was. It’s also a familiarity thing: people won’t lose the anxiety until they experience the reality

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  • Haha, yeah very different situations ……

    I had to pick my kid up from college and the itinerary takes about 60% of my battery round trip

    • I try to remember to click the charge limit on my app from 80% to 100% the night before. Charging at home is wonderful, and this gives me cushion to take detours
    • I try to charge at work since it’s free but there’s always a queue so I can’t always
    • if my battery runs low (it did once, when I spent the weekend there playing tourist), there’s superchargers in that town and a few miles down both possible highways, plus multiple places on those highways.
    • I’ve never seen a non-working Tesla supercharger, and I’ve never had to look for any other brand since they are so convenient and everywhere

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  • Having to plan your trips around charging is annoying, there isn’t really much progress there.

    Do people do this? Sure I was anxious when I first got my EV, but the reality is very different. I try to remember to click the charge limit on my app from the usual 80% to 100% the night before but that’s all the planning I ever do.

    Do other cars not have this integrated into trip planning? When I use the GPS to set a route, it just automatically adds waypoints for charging when necessary. I never need to think about it. Maybe I haven’t gone rural enough yet, I don’t know

    And trip planning has never called for more than 20 minutes at a supercharger, trying to keep me on the steep part of the charging curve.

    Where’s the beef?

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  • Plug-in hybrids fail because of people. They could cover most or all of a typical commute on battery, but there was that recent study saying people don’t use them that way. If you’re going to treat it like an ICE car, it’s just an ICE car with more weight, that costs more.

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  • I feel like they’re a great solution …. For the aughts (00’s) and tens (10’s), but we should be past them. They had their time (even if few bought them then) and it’s time to phase them out for EVs. Sure, some vehicles and some locations aren’t yet suited for EVs so they should stay a little longer on the hybrids they should already be using, but most vehicles and place need to be turning to EVs

    I really think emotions and politics got in the way of the better technology back then, and now as well. Now is not the time to be ramping up the technology of last decade

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  • The entire strait of Hormuz mess only affects like 20% of the worlds oil and look at the effect it has. Imagine the opposite happening with mass adoption of hybrids (and continued growth in EVs)

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  • Yeah I will never go back.

    I still have my ICE car for my kids, and have been tempted to upgrade them ….. but there’s no point spending money to replace a perfectly functional car only 9 years old, and most importantly just sits while they are away at school

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  • No.

    • historically there were reliability issues with the self-presenting handles on model s and model x, which they redesigned, but now are stopping production of
    • by far the most produced are their model 3 and y, which are NOT self-presenting. You press in one side for the other side to pop out so this has never been an issue

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  • My EV has over 300 mile range: most people aren’t going that far into the woods

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  • Seriously, I’m not even in California and charging is a solved issue

    • charge at home is half the price of gas and the car is always ready to go
    • free charging at work is icing on the cake
    • trip charger in every direction.

    Limited by my road trips, I can tell you that everywhere between Virginia and Boston has convenient trip chargers …… and I never bothered looking at anything other than tesla

    Even only the north east and California had trip chargers, that’s a population close to 100M. And most decent sized cities everywhere have trip chargers - we’re covered for at least half the population, and probably much much more