For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings

arijun wrote: post #5

sollawen wrote: post #2

But I think American drivers probably don’t care about these things.

You don't think Americans care about cost savings, with how much they complain about gasoline prices?

To an extent... but Culture Wars, Rolling Coal and owning the Libs is more important to a large minority.

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Post by yieldcrv » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 6:55 AM UTC

> “We even did a sensitivity study to see if the range is reduced in very cold climates, and we found that, even in the most unfavorable conditions, EVs still reduce emissions by a substantial amount,” Miotti says.

the range is so bad that he couldn’t even finish the thought about range

that’s hilarious and I’m an EV driver, in warm and sunny southwest though

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Post by wood_spirit » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 6:56 AM UTC

My experience - in the Nordics, but this is transferable - is they are also much nicer to own and drive. I don’t know anyone who went electric and then went back. The generation who went electric a few years ago is now on their second or third electric car. The makes and models in favour is changing (cue tangent on Tesla brand death in Europe) but the power source choice is not. So as more people get one, I expect their market share to just climb and climb.

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Post by deathanatos » Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC

Unless things have changed, when I looked a couple of years ago, I couldn't make the math math. The cost difference outweighed the savings, IIRC, even if we assumed electricity to be free.

The bigger problem, though, was that the EV we were considering (a Prius) was scarce. So even though I couldn't make the alleged price make sense … well, if there's no supply, then the price may as well be $∞.

So IDK, since that lack of supply also seems to suggest other people disagree (or put utility to the ecological aspects).