01-07-2024, 04:54 PM
I'm an electric car proponent even though I don't own one and don't plan
on buying one because I have a reliable 1999 Toyota Sienna which I love dearly.
(It was made back when Toyota made reliable cars.) Two other reasons
I don't plan on buying one are I don't have enough money and I drive
about 2,000 miles a year. Since you need to drive about 16,000 miles
before an electric car becomes carbon neutral, that would take me
eight years so I wouldn't be doing the environment any favors.
My sister has an electric car, a Tesla Model Y. I've driven it around and it
pretty much feels like driving any other car, there's really nothing people
have to get used to. She lives in California with high electric rates so her
savings over buying gasoline are about 15%. Since I live in Texas I'd save
about 40% if I charged from home and not from the charging stations
which can get kind of pricey. If you have a Tesla and live near a large
urban center there are plenty of charging stations as well as ones along
all the major interstates so that really isn't a problem. If Tesla opens up its
charging stations to other manufacturers, then it won't be a problem for
others as well.
In the foreseeable future there are always going to be use cases for
gas cars. If I lived in a rural area i.e. Montana or somewhere like
that, it definitely wouldn't make sense to have an electric car. I see the
main problem with electric cars at the moment is price. A transition isn't
possible until the price comes down. BYD and Nio are going to be the
first to have really inexpensive ones and then Tesla when it gets its next-gen
car into mass production. In an Ideal World we would reduce CO2 emissions
by using mass transit and bicycles (Denmark is really cool that way) and
giving up cars altogether. And in an Ideal World domestic cats wouldn't have
sharp claws; but here I sit with blood dripping down my leg and staining my socks.
on buying one because I have a reliable 1999 Toyota Sienna which I love dearly.
(It was made back when Toyota made reliable cars.) Two other reasons
I don't plan on buying one are I don't have enough money and I drive
about 2,000 miles a year. Since you need to drive about 16,000 miles
before an electric car becomes carbon neutral, that would take me
eight years so I wouldn't be doing the environment any favors.
My sister has an electric car, a Tesla Model Y. I've driven it around and it
pretty much feels like driving any other car, there's really nothing people
have to get used to. She lives in California with high electric rates so her
savings over buying gasoline are about 15%. Since I live in Texas I'd save
about 40% if I charged from home and not from the charging stations
which can get kind of pricey. If you have a Tesla and live near a large
urban center there are plenty of charging stations as well as ones along
all the major interstates so that really isn't a problem. If Tesla opens up its
charging stations to other manufacturers, then it won't be a problem for
others as well.
In the foreseeable future there are always going to be use cases for
gas cars. If I lived in a rural area i.e. Montana or somewhere like
that, it definitely wouldn't make sense to have an electric car. I see the
main problem with electric cars at the moment is price. A transition isn't
possible until the price comes down. BYD and Nio are going to be the
first to have really inexpensive ones and then Tesla when it gets its next-gen
car into mass production. In an Ideal World we would reduce CO2 emissions
by using mass transit and bicycles (Denmark is really cool that way) and
giving up cars altogether. And in an Ideal World domestic cats wouldn't have
sharp claws; but here I sit with blood dripping down my leg and staining my socks.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions