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Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

People already have ICE vehicles, and they’re going to last for decades to come. I have a diesel Mercedes from 1980 that still runs and works just fine. No battery is going to last 40+ years, and the move to battery powered vehicles is unwittingly entering us all into a “subscription” based transportation society, much like literally every other device in the world that takes a battery. Oil and gas emissions aren’t ideal, but neither are the environmental issues that originate from mining. Mining causes massive amounts of environmental damage to wildlife and the surrounding natural ecosystem, watersheds, and has its own brand of air pollution. Read up on the Questa moly mine is Northern New Mexico if you wish. We’re talking rivers that turn blue, depleted salmon populations, -permanent- groundwater contamination, acid ponds, and heavy metal dusts blowing into nearby towns and exposing people to lead, uranium, and cadmium, among whatever else. Why are people so eager to attack oil “barons” nowadays when the health, tech, and banking industries are bleeding us dry at every corner? At least we’ve got remote work options nowadays–can you say the same for your home loan?

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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Disposability and lack of proven reliability are massive factors in my late adoptor attitude. When a 10 year old EV sells for $10k, I’m in. I’m not going to pay a $20k premium for a car that needs a $??k battery replacement (or it’s scrap) every 10 years.

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- Slacking@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How much money do you spend in gas every ten year? Do you really think it’s less then a new battery? Not to mention the price of batteries are dropping like a stone.
  
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  - Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can budget for gas because that’s a known. I have no fucking clue what a battery costs, for you? I’m not interested in paying a premium for an unknown. I’m in the wait and see camp. Some internet strangers throwing comments at me will not make me change my mind. I’ve listed my reasons many fucking times in this thread.
    
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    Slacking@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The cheapest Tesla battery is 5k. The average American spends 2k a year on gas. You have to budget for gas for 3 years to have the price of your battery. Gas will keep costing you forever. The batts are rated for 200 000 km, and there are warranties if they start losing their charge too early so it’s very hard to have to pay for a replacement before you come into your money.
    
    Its impossible to not come out on top if you factor in the gas, it just seems like a no brainer to me. I haven’t seen your other comments, I just now the reasons you listed under mine simply aren’t valid.
    
    If you can’t afford a new vehicle, that’s completely fine. The used market for EVs is just not good.
    
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Slacking@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ice vehicles still need mining to produce. The one time cost is practically the same and quickly becomes unimportant when you compare the cost of running them. It’s fine if you want to keep using your old vehicle or if the only vehicle you can afford is the cheapest ICE, but buying an ICE vehicle when there are evs at the same price literally means you are part of the problem. Whatever extra cost there is after that in terms of battery replacement pales in comparison to the constant cost of gas so it isn’t a valid reason.

Do not minimize the effects of constantly burning gas. It is more than not ideal, it is leading to a complete collapse of our ecosystem.

Do you close your eyes every year whenever a new spill happens, or another thousand acres get burned? Call me when the tech industry is causing shit like that. Not that they aren’t doing bad things, but saying “what about them” when the crimes of the oil barons is soon much greater is farcical.

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