Comment

They are very expensive and not everyone has a garage where they can charge them. I can only park on the street so I would have to go to a charging point and sit in my car for the whole time it charges. Not as convenient as pumping petrol into my car for 2 minutes.

source

Sort:hotnew top

Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not only that, but people are realizing that the battery’s don’t last forever. What happens when those batteries start to wear and you need to replace them and have to spend another $5k - $10k. For a car you already paid $40k for? Also, where are the used batteries going? Used EV’s are a huge gamble and a risky proposition. In the end, it’s just more toxic waste to deal with

source
db2@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not to mention the cost of charging. A hybrid charged here for a month, my power bill was $800 this month because of it, quadrupling what it was at the same period last year. Gas right now averages $3.676 per gallon in the US, and we’ll assume a 12 gallon tank, so a single fill from dead empty costs $44.11 which is plenty enough money to part with. But that makes the cost of the extra used electricity the equivalent of like 14 full tanks of gas, and I promise those charges did not move the vehicle anywhere close to the number of miles 14 tanks of fuel would. Probably not even the equivalent of one tank.

I like the idea of electric cars, but fuck everything about that. I won’t even allow charging at my place anymore, for anyone.

source
- anage_oldprob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Something else seems off here. Plugin hybrids generally have a battery capacity of around 15 kWh giving you about 30 miles of all battery range. Average electricity prices are about $0.15 a kWh It should cost about $2.25 to charge your battery effectively giving you your first tank of gas 40% off.
  
  To reach $600 of charging you would have charged that battery roughly 265 times and driven 8000 miles just on the battery which is quiet a feat given the 30 miles of just battery range that most PHEVs have. Higher electricity costs obviously change this but you’d have to have outrageous prices and driving habits to hit $600 of charging especially on a PHEV.
  
  source
  - db2@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No new appliances, everything is in working order, nothing running more than usual.
    
    You may still be right if charging the EV made an existing problem more obvious which is entirely possible. I have no idea what such a problem could be though.
    
    source