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Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

My arguments against EV, not sorted by anything:

It’s comfy to feel and hear working engine.
I really dislike automatic gearbox. It feels as if I lost part of control over vehicle and I kinda need it to not go autopilot. Like, me going autopilot, not car.
EV’s seem best for richer people than me living in houses where they can charge them up - charging from station still is pricer than gasoline.
I can have emergency gas can in the car and if something happen, it will buy me enough range to reach another station. And when I turn off ICE car, it won’t leak it’s fuel, no matter the temps. The last part I will write up at the end.
Where I live, the EV infrastructure is catching fast but it is still really lackluster, and to add to that, even I can feel like 70% safe with infastructure here, it’s not certain for my neighbouring countries so that also limit.

And about 4:

This winter we had a small funny problem that two TIRs decided to play overtake on a frozen road and crashed, blockimg whole road. People spent 12 hours standing in line and not really able to get out from what I heard. ICE cars once turned off in that scenario would not give a frick about temps, but wouldn’t EVs have problems with their battery discharginf either due to cold or due to fighting the cold?

But all in all, I still would like EV car lol. In my use case - that is either driving in my hometown or driving to the next bigger city over, they make a lot of sense. Although I can’t afford any car anyway xD

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The concern about cold and EVs is overblown. While sure in the arctic ….

heat pump makes a huge difference in winter range

my car really only loses noticeable charge while idle because I keep sentry mode on. I live in a busy area so the entire car keeps waking up to make sure no one is vandalizing it. If I turn that off, the loss is not really noticeable

I believe Tesla replaced the old tech 12v lead acid battery for running accessories with a lithium ion battery meant to last the life of the car

I believe the other factor in the most publicized instance of cold weather affecting EVs was people. People waiting until they’re desperate, then finding lines, and waiting in their vehicle with heat on
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- Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I asked on that point because I didn’t know, so thanks for answer. People are used to driving ICE cars near reserve so it will take time till they learn to not do this with EVs xD
  
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nova@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think cost is one of the biggest ones especially where I am. You need to have a house with a driveway so you can charge at home as the infrastructure is lackluster. Plus the fact that manufacturing just the steel parts of a car creates a hell of a lot of CO2. I’m happy with my 08 deisel with hundreds of thousands of miles on and I’ll keep maintaining it. Who knows, when it finally dies maybe it will be economical to buy an EV? I’ll still get to use deisel though. I drive HGVs and I can’t see them changing to electric anytime soon. As soon as I leave for the day someone else drives the truck I was in. They do not sit around long enough to be charged.

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