One minute you are being cheered by Biden for going electric.. the next you are…..

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Couple down the street from a friend of mine...power goes out during a storm, causing a short to the EV that was charging in the garage. EV caught fire and the whole house burned to the ground. The EV burned for 3 days.

Part of the grand plan is to restripe parking garages leaving more space between vehicles, so that when one catches fire, it doesn't spread to other EVs.

I just had to take an EV as my rental car last week. What a pain in the arse. Never again.

All EV's are pushed by backstabbing lobbyists trying to earn a dollar. Same goes with climate control. AL Gore is worth around $200 million from this "climate crisis". Wake up people.

These mother scratchers do not give one frick about the climate. They just want your dollars to better themselves.

EV rental cars was always a completely stupid arse idea. I recently met one of the guys who ran that lease deal for Hertz and he had some pretty funny commentary on the financial model and the assumptions they used that were totally bonkers.

There are kids operating lemonade stands that have a stronger business acumen than these guys running large organizations.

That sucks

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I’ve only ridden in one that was a taxi, so haven’t been in one for extended periods

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So you haven't had to plan a trip around where you would be able to find a charging station. Or build an extra hour or two into your itinerary because when you get to the charging station you have to wait because some aren't operable and others are being used.

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What was wrong with it? I’ve only ridden in one that was a taxi, so haven’t been in one for extended periods.

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I bought an EV about three months ago. They are great cars for limited missions. But for most driving profiles they would be very inconvenient.

I'll start by saying that in every way they are superior to ICE vehicles except for two, but those two are doozies. Everyone knows what those are - range and recharging. The range issue is worse than most folks realize because the batteries really should not be charged above 80%. You can do it now and then, but it eats away at battery life, and the replacement batteries are super expensive. Also, EV drivers are less inclined to run to the end of their range because of anxiety about finding a recharge. The result is that the effective rage is from 80% to 10% of the battery, or 70% of what they say the range is.

None of this matters for me because I don't have a driving profile that requires more than 175 miles before the car is back in my garage for a night. And it fully recharges in about 12 hours or less.

I said there were two negatives about EVs, but that ignores a third...they are god-awful expensive. I don't predict a good ending to the EV experiment.

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Part of the grand plan is to restripe parking garages leaving more space between vehicles, so that when one catches fire, it doesn't spread to other EVs.

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