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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.
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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.
Sounds good until you have to replace the battery. I want one of the rivian rts but they are still too pricy even used.
“Electric cars are too expensive!”
“I’m only interested in the most expensive of electric cars!”
Yeah good thing ICE cars don’t have anything expensive that breaks after 300,000 miles like an engine or a transmission…
you drive your cars for 300000 miles?
My 2010 wagon has 180k and I can still take it to the mountains and not worry about finding a broken charge port on the way home.
How the hell would you break a charge port? If you managed that then no vehicle is safe.
https://teslaweekly.com/2024/05/vandals-cut-every-charging-cable-at-tesla-supercharger-station-in-bay-area/
This is not an isolated incident.
Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/03/tesla-charging-us-network/
Oh, the charging station. Charging port I think would mean the port it plugs into on your car. Yeah, I guess that could be an issue, but it’s not really something that needs to be considered by a consumer. The fact that you’re much less likely to have mechanical issues I think more than makes up for the rare case of vandalism, which can happen to any piece of the infrastructure, for gas and electric.
How is being stranded with no way to charge your EV not a concern for owners?
And yes, potentially gas stations could be vandalized as well – except they aren’t, and charge stations are.
Lots of people BUY their cars with 300k miles.
well maybe in 3rd world like USA they do
Plenty of countries out there with lower income levels than the US, including much of Europe tbh.
yeah, but all of those 400-500 kkm cars get bought up by Kazakhstan and similar country importers.
My current ice vehicle has 320k on it now
Regarding battery degradation - I’ve owned my EV for 4.5 years now, and its battery is still at 93% of its original capacity. That equates to maybe 10 miles of range lost, from an original range of around 230 miles. At that rate, it’ll still be giving usable range in 10, 15 years from now. It’s even warrantied to keep over 75% of its original capacity for 8 years / 100,000 miles - if it fails to achieve this (likely due to some defect), it’s replaced for free.
And when it does eventually need replacing, it can be recycled into something like a home storage battery - where the power demand is not as high, but still more than enough to power everything in your home for days. Meanwhile, the car can be upgraded to a brand new battery, which will likely last even longer.
Edit: In fact, I tell a lie - I did have to replace a battery on my EV recently. The 12v lead-acid battery, that ICE cars also rely on.
How about you start looking at actual cars instead?