re: Are people brainwashed with electric cars?

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If you drive less than <200 mi/day then you're golden with an EV.

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The gas savings out weighs price increase?

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Well this is exactly it isn’t it.

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You'd have a point if people just started hating on EVs recently, but they've been hating on them loooooong before the mandates, so this is definitely not "exactly it" as the reason for the hate of EVs.

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I know, many times you can learn a lot from this place.

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From your link:

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Recent studies of the EMF emitted by these automobiles have claimed either that they pose a cancer risk for the vehicles' occupants or that they are safe.

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So you chose to believe one side and not the other.

Again OP, here's your perfect example about someone being brainwashed with EVs.

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Keeps the African Cobalt miners employed

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I love how this is all of a sudden being posted in everyone of these threads as you bros play on your smartphones all day without a care in the world about the slave labor used to make those phones.

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The gas savings out weighs price increase?

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Price increase of what?

Compare a Tesla Model 3 to a similarly priced BMW 3 series because they're in the same class. They cost around the same, so what price increase?


Not sure why people feel the need to compare EVs to cars that cost half as much to then say the gas savings won't make up for it in the long run.

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Not sure why people feel the need to compare EVs to cars that cost half as much to then say the gas savings won't make up for it in the long run.

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Camry =/= Model 3

Now using the F-150 Lightning compared to a King Ranch is a good comparison and they have a long ways to go on the electric truck front.

I am still waiting for the budget EV to be introduced on the market.

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I have a feeling that won't sit well with the people that inhabit the state

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People here get off on being told what to do.

I went to pick up a can of Copenhagen the other day, and they have banned any and all flavored tobacco products in the state, no menthol cigarettes, no mint or wintergreen smokeless tobacco.

shite is weird

Get ready to see cars stopped on the side of the road…..Battery out of Juice

Battery cost almost the cost of the car

Be ready to wait to get power

Cannot get juice when the temp grts freezing

I just don’t know what the future solution is for emergency situations. Like when a hurricane slams into the coast and we have power failures for days or weeks with nowhere to charge our vehicles. Could you imagine what the evacuation would look like? Also any other situation where you may have to take an emergency trip like to the hospital or something similar during prolonged power outages.

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I would not take a cross country or multi-state trip in one of those things.

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I wanna preface this by stating I'm not arguing against this or that this is wrong, quite the opposite as time to charge clearly a valid point against EVs. But a couple of things...

Not to you directly, but I don't think charging on road trips takes nearly as long as a great many think. In these threads, posters reply and state you have to charge for 1 hour at least at each stop, which just isn't so.

Again, some people will never want to wait to charge compared to time to get gas, and that is totally understandable. In fact, when I was younger and single I made a 10 hour drive a couple of times per year, and I was that guy that would only stop for gas and have snacks when I first leave, so I would just make 2 stops for 5 minutes each for gas and nothing else. So I get those that do that.


But nowadays, I have a wife and kids. We've taken 3 10ish hour road trips in our Tesla, and we've also made the same exact road trip in our Grand Cherokee, and the Grand Cherokee trip was only 30 minutes quicker. Could some of that have been due to traffic? Sure, but the traffic in the non-EV didn't seem any better or worse. 95% or more of my stops are 15 minutes or less, with may being 5-10 minutes.

Point being, with a wife and young kids, you're usually having to make more stops than you want, plus a stop to eat. You can roll those into your charge trips, so while charging does take time, some of that is time you'd be taking to stop any way even if you didn't have an EV.

So in my example above, we were always going to stop for about 60 minutes in the non-EV, and we stopped for a total of 90 minutes in the EV on the 10 hour trip.