Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com 3 months ago
Imo I think electric cars are very suitable for mile to hot weather climates in big cities and their suburbs, but in my own experience, electric car fail in extremely cold weather And also also, it’s hard to find charging stations in rural areas. Ideally, we would get away from gasoline powered cars, but at this time with the current power grid in most countries, it doesn’t seem like a viable solution
if we put half as much energy into solving those problem that we do attempting to extend fossil fuels, those problems wouldnt exist.
those are temporary issues that wont go anywhere until we are forced to solve for them.... by fazing out fossil fuels.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m one year in being an EV owner - in europe, not in a metropole but in belgium so there’s still some density of population.
Relative cold had anecdotal impact. Maybe when going under -10 it’s becoming an issue but so far no impact.
Charging infrastructure is getting there - still no rapid chargers in wallonia but I’ve learned that I don’t need them either. I’m able to live my life by charging once a week or so in my home charger. Admittedly I work from home 3 days a week and I use trains 2 days to get to work.
For holidays we like going to France where they seem to have an abundance of fast chargers and it’s been a breeze beside an increased frequency of stops to charge for 15 minutes.
So yeah it’s all anecdotal but in European settings it’s perfectly fine.