There are good reasons for buying an EV but this article is not convincing. The author thinks an M3 is a “real sports car” (it’s definitely not), so no surprise that the article doesn’t talk about a big downside that makes EVs less fun to drive - their higher weight.
The Next Car You Buy Should Be Electric
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#12Petrol cars have significantly longer driving range, which is important for transport efficiency. Petrol cars are significantly cheaper to buy. Petrol cars refuel significantly faster than electronic cars recharge. Petrol cars don't have a costly battery which degrades over time and pollutes.
Petrol cars actually work in extreme climates.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, does that mean that you can pick up salvage title Teslas…?
Yes, but you won't be able to supercharge them (if not now, then at some point soon). Rich Rebuilds has gone over the headaches of this extensively and you'll notice the last year or so of his content has nothing to do with Teslas.
I’m actually fine with that. Other than me scrounging around in the usual places, any links to where I should start looking for salvage titles?
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#14I would buy an electric car but the problem I have living in a terraced house is charging it. I don’t have off road parking and the street I’m on can’t easily accommodate chargers on the pavement.
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#15Petrol cars have significantly longer driving range, which is important for transport efficiency. Petrol cars are significantly cheaper to buy. Petrol cars refuel significantly faster than electronic cars recharge. Petrol cars don't have a costly battery which degrades over time and pollutes.
Petrol cars actually work in extreme climates.
Petrol cars can be easily fixed in a driveway.
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#16Lots of us petrolheads like electric cars. What we don't like are cars plagued by build quality issues and that we're not even _allowed_ by the manufacturer to wrench on it ourselves (a quality we also strongly dislike about modern ICE cars as well). The black box nature is what makes it antithetical. The rates that Teslas are getting totaled out for what should be repairable issues are also a hot issue for us.
Wait, does that mean that you can pick up salvage title Teslas…?
If you can it sounds like a wild ride getting various parts to coexist. I'm expecting components to be "smart" enough to self-report and disable each other in obscure ways.
I recall a few people doing mod work on recovered teslas and building a working one from two broken vehicles, but then having various usage issues.
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#17There are good reasons for buying an EV but this article is not convincing. The author thinks an M3 is a “real sports car” (it’s definitely not), so no surprise that the article doesn’t talk about a big downside that makes EVs less fun to drive - their higher weight.
Heh...speaking of weight...Hoovie's Garage has me wanting an Austin-Healey Sprite Mark I. That'd be a real hoot to drive.
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#18Still doesn't work for my use case. I commute on public transport, live in an apartment with only on-street parking, there is limited on-street charging but it's massively oversubscribed. Mostly I drive longer distances for hiking trips, weekends away music festivals, visiting family etc. Very few of these destinations have charging options. I've seen how this can work, I drove an electric Hyundai Ionic as a hire car…
Hmm, interesting. In London at least it doesn't look like the on-street charging is particularly over subscribed, although it obviously would become so if everyone followed this without drastic improvements. I think it really depends on the area but parking by my old flat had chargers in the lamp posts, by my friends there are proper electric only bays with faster chargers, etc.
If your main use case is long trips though I agree, although service stations in the UK do have pretty good electric charging infrastructure.
My parents have just switched to electric and while its a slight change in how you operate (maybe stop for a coffee and let the dog stretch his legs while they are plugged into a fast charger for 20 mins) they seem pretty happy with it.
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#19> The first car I bought (after driving a self-repaired / built junk) was a Honda Civic type-R
Yeah, no, not all of us have enough money to have had as our first car a "Honda Civic type-R". Probably the title should read be more like: "If You're At Least Comfortably Middle-Class The Next Car You Buy Should Be Electric".
But of course all this push to EVs is a huge regressive tax applied to the less-off people which is constantly ignored from the public discourse, so this type of attitude does not surprise me at all.
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#20Petrol cars have significantly longer driving range, which is important for transport efficiency. Petrol cars are significantly cheaper to buy. Petrol cars refuel significantly faster than electronic cars recharge. Petrol cars don't have a costly battery which degrades over time and pollutes.
Petrol cars actually work in extreme climates.
My diesel and petrol cars really didn't like longer -30C weathers. The oil turns into mush and the poor 12V battery can't hold a charge.
It was a roll of the dice every morning whether I could go to work each day.
With an electric car, I sit in the car, press a button and it works. The cabin is hot within 5-10 minutes.
Compared to my diesel, which started blowing hot air to the cabin around the time I was already at the office :D