I’m focusing on the 1% because 1% cases are what drives purchases in most cases. Renting a car for 1% of your trips is often expensive enough that it’s cheaper overall to just buy the one car that will do everything instead of finding an alternate for the 1%.
Yes, I know you can take an EV on long trips. People do it. However, everyone is planning in ways that people with gas cars don’t. Because with a gas car, as you’re driving along, you see your fuel gauge running towards low so you stop at the next exit: there’s a gas station there. You don’t worry about headwind or temperature causing you to use more fuel or some other situation.
Is that really more annoying than all the repair work and climate guilt that comes with an ICE vehicle? Is that 5 minutes more valuable than all the time you spend working to make money to spend on gas and repairs?
I think where our mindsets differ is that you, and other people, value the ultimate convenience of just impromptu stopping when the gauge goes low. No one wants to do the little bit of extra brain work to plot the course for navigating an EV. Even though it’s actually far less extra work than most people imagine it is, due to the tools that are available to you.
Whereas I’m telling you, it’s well beyond worth it for that little bit of extra effort. I spend thousands less every year, with huge reductions in fuel and maintenance costs, than I would be spending had I kept my last gas car I had before making the switch last year.
I have absolutely zero regrets. And I believe most people would be there too if they switched… the experience is just too good.
I’m focusing on the 1% because 1% cases are what drives purchases in most cases. Renting a car for 1% of your trips is often expensive enough that it’s cheaper overall to just buy the one car that will do everything instead of finding an alternate for the 1%.
Yes, I know you can take an EV on long trips. People do it. However, everyone is planning in ways that people with gas cars don’t. Because with a gas car, as you’re driving along, you see your fuel gauge running towards low so you stop at the next exit: there’s a gas station there. You don’t worry about headwind or temperature causing you to use more fuel or some other situation.
Is that really more annoying than all the repair work and climate guilt that comes with an ICE vehicle? Is that 5 minutes more valuable than all the time you spend working to make money to spend on gas and repairs?
I think where our mindsets differ is that you, and other people, value the ultimate convenience of just impromptu stopping when the gauge goes low. No one wants to do the little bit of extra brain work to plot the course for navigating an EV. Even though it’s actually far less extra work than most people imagine it is, due to the tools that are available to you.
Whereas I’m telling you, it’s well beyond worth it for that little bit of extra effort. I spend thousands less every year, with huge reductions in fuel and maintenance costs, than I would be spending had I kept my last gas car I had before making the switch last year.
I have absolutely zero regrets. And I believe most people would be there too if they switched… the experience is just too good.