Comment on We like our EV because it's green. But for escaping wildfires — maybe it's not the best option yet | CBC News

Kachilde@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Petrol / diesel vehicles usually have a longer range than electric… as long as they are topped up.

  But to answer your real question, I also wonder what the point of the article is. It seems like the point is to dissuade people from buying EVs and to keep oil companies making as much money as possible. Since we are talking about hypotheticals (she might still buy EV if her family has a petrol car to borrow), why not discuss the hypothetical of a bus / train / car share network that makes a personal vehicle irrelevant?

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was unsure at first, but part of it might be the type of article.

    www.cbc.ca/news/first-person-faq-1.5927006

    First Person columns are personal stories and experiences of Canadians, in their own words. This is intended to showcase a more intimate storytelling perspective, and allow people from across the country to share what they have lived through.

    So it’s one person’s account of what they experienced and how they feel. There might not be a specific point to the piece, but rather you can take from it what you will. I saw it as advocating for further improving the charging network, in particular focussing on the issue of how forest fires might impact it.

    It’s also a bad title. The content is decent, but if you just read the title it’s bad.

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    • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for doing that research. I read the summary which is all written in third person and assumed that was the whole article. Less likely to be malicious if it’s just the newspaper’s equivalent of a personal blog…

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• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unprepared people live to regret being unprepared. In my view, this has little to do with what they happen to be driving.

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• sik0fewl@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the point is that we need to continue improving our infrastructure.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think infrastructure is still relevant (we need battery technologies so that power loss to a region doesn’t shut down all charging stations), but the other point here is that the network is still very sporadic in BC. So when a part of the network is blocked off, because of closed roads, it might leave people stranded.

  There’s also this other point which is important outside of disaster situations, but probably made worse during a disaster with limited supports:

  Hardly unusual, she said, as she often finds EV chargers located in inconvenient places, such as the edges of town or behind buildings. “If I was travelling as a single woman, I would have found myself missing the comfort of a brightly lit gas station on a lonely stretch of highway.”

  Not a point against EVs, but rather about the need to build out the network even more

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