Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  With the stupid worthless data centers and opportunity to shareholder price gouge electric isn’t going to be any better.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  With the stupid worthless data centers and opportunity to shareholder price gouge electric isn’t going to be any better.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Americans aren’t wary of EVs we can’t giyving afford the overpriced shit that’s sold here.

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• Solventbubbles@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean… The main reason is people don’t have money for a new car. Also the electrical infrastructure in this country is not ready for everyone to go electric.

  The gas and oil industries have paid TONS of money to keep people locked into gas vehicles.

  Once again, the rich continue to fuck the rest of us.

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  • ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also the electrical infrastructure in this country is not ready for everyone to go electric.

    You’re repeating big oil talking points. We improve the grid all the time, we can continue to do it. Sure if all cars were magically converted into EVs tomorrow we would have big problems, but that’s not how the real world works.

    If the grid actually was about to fall over because of a few more EVs, these datacenters spinning up all over the place would be even bigger disasters than they already are.

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Got news for you with the Datacenters…

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    • Solventbubbles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not using big oil talking points. I’m saying in reality, because of the damage that big oil has done to keep us from going electric, the infrastructure is not currently there.

      They’ve paid money to keep us from expanding our grid. They are saying it won’t work because they are making sure it doesn’t.

      I completely agree with you that I think it is absolutely possible, but there are bigger things blocking the way.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And also don’t forget charging stations don’t exist, and vast majority of people who live in higher density housing have zero way of charging at home.

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    • org@lemmy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My apartment building has parking spots with “EV” painted on them but no chargers.

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  • magguzu@lemmy.pt ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The big appeal of EVs isn’t the public charging ports. They are cheaper than gas but not cheap.

    Its the outlet at your house. And no despite what marketing says you do NOT have to install a 240V socket. Your existing one is fine for the vast majority of people charging overnight. If you’re commuting to/from work, chances are that non-100% charge will serve just fine.

    If you don’t have a way to charge at home though it can be harder to recommend.

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the beauty of it, now that the oil-ligarchy has defunded alternate energy and removed tax incentives, the companies responded by reversing 2 decades of development and finally getting hybrids and evs common in us automakers.

  Now that electric is off the menu, and protectionism is back on, it means the places those cars are being made and made well–like china–americans simply won’t even know about them or be able to buy them as they’ll be tariffed out of existence.

  Triple win for the oil-ligarchy

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Almost like it was planned - as soon as EVs are off the menu, start a war and send gas prices soaring. Get ready for another round of record quarterly profits - just like in GWII.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are we? I’m looking to buy a car now and I think gas cars make the most sense even now, because the change in the price of gas seems like a relatively small part of the cost of car ownership. A one dollar increase in the cost of a gallon of gas works out to about $300 a year in extra costs for me. That’s not enough to tip the balance towards an electric car.

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Trust me, the eN is way more fun to drive. Teslas are sterile, even the Plaid models.

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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Moved to The Bay Area recently; sold our older car and got an EV. We don’t have an in-home charger, so I pay public charger prices, and it still costs me (or would cost me, if I ran þe battery þis way) $40 to charge from 0-100%. Last time I filled þe tank on þe ICE car it cost me nearly $90. I get a bit more range for þat $90, but nowhere near double. It’d be even more dramatic a difference if I could charge at home.

  One of þe better decisons we’ve made, but it’s also partially so successfuul because of þe mild California climate. It wouldn’t have been quite so great in Minnesota.

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