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Most people drive around their city.
People don't have range anxiety about driving around their city.
It's for the few times they need to be able to depend on a car to take them to the next city.
Yeah.
I like going camping sometimes.
Or on longer road trips.
Range is an actual issue. The fact that I'm in the city MOST of the time I drive doesn't mean I'm in the city ALL the time I drive. I don't need some article telling me range anxiety is overblown when it isn't on those days.
For the "sometimes" long distance trips, you can always hire a long-range car for the trip.
In theory. In theory some can rent a car with property XYZ. And for "sometimes but often enough" long trips those rental charges adds up fast.
why? it' trivially easy to know how far the other place is and the car's average consumption
You'd only be justified if you are cutting it super short but I'd assume that would be rare
When I'm driving across country i want to know that my car isn't going to die.
You ignoring this reasonable concern just shuts down valid criticism.
Better drive an EV then. Fewer moving parts, practically no maintenance to forget to do. Every ICE car I've owned has required unexpected roadside repairs at one point in time.
Funny thing. Only time an ICE has failed me on the road is either the brake caliper locked up or the battery died....
Well, I had a muffler partially fall off. Fuel filter clogged (twice) intake manifold cracked and caused a misfire. O2 sensor went haywire and put the car in a limp mode... I've never run out of gas, but I've heard that isn't uncommon for other people. Ignition coils went bad... Consider yourself very lucky.
Sounds like you just dont do maintenence on your cars lol.
Speaking of ignition coil, i did have the ECU fail and stopped sending siginals to a coil... but can really include a computer failure when talking about ICE reliability vs EV?.
No, I maintained my cars. What's the maintenance schedule on an intake manifold?
Low/old oil causes higher friction and higher temperatures. And low coolant reduces how well the system keeps the engine cool.
If you have one crack, thats bad luck in manufacturing defect... having two... either your really unlucky, or doing something wrong.
Ford made it out of resin and it was an issue. Point being, ICE cars are mechanically more complex, and more likely to strand you due to failures that are beyond your control.
Absolutely, but that being said breaking down on the side of the road is pretty damn rare for properly maintained ice engines. Your personal experience not withstanding. I've been driving for 35 years and I drove way more than the average person over that time.
I've had 2 break downs during that time that an average person would have needed a tow truck for. One on an unmaintained service van, that blew a water hose. The other was a bad starter on a 99' neon which was a manual so I push started it for 3 months :p
In fact, for anyone that takes a reasonable number of long trips. An ice engine, is going to crush a EV in time efficiency of travel time even counting rare breakdowns.
EVs are statistically more reliable and require significantly less maintenance. Even more so if you exclude Teslas.
They're absurdly simple compared to gas guzzlers and cheaper to run, especially if you can get a cheap overnight electricity tariff.
My EV costs me 20% of what my petrol car cost me to fuel, and my service plan is roughly half the price.
And it's so, so, so much more fun to drive. I love it. Best car ever, by far. I zip away from gas powered mercs and BMWs at the lights and I can just floor it on the motorway and zip past anything when I want to. All in my unremarkable family car EV.
EVs only use physical brakes under sharp breaking and parking, so they wear down less.
In over 30 years driving I only ever had a breakdown away from home because of a gearbox failure. (I buy all my cars second hand but young, so that someone else has done the expensive bit of depreciation, and I don't buy American cars.)
Wana buy me one?
Because I can't afford a new car.
Neither can I, that's why I got a used one, and TBH I can barely afford that.
This is the way.
I'm not ignoring it, I'm simply assuming most poeple are not driving across country constantly... much less without any foresight or planning
I know my small house would not fit my family from abroad if they all come to visit at the same time... I would not say such situation is preventing the adoption of condos
People do indeed have foresight. And they are planning ahead. That's why they are not buying electric cars.
They very clearly explained that it's not "constantly." It's sometimes. Sometimes they would like to take longer trips, and on these longer trips, it makes their trips even longer and more difficult to plan.
prescisely my point... they seem to be ruling out EV because of an issue most poeple face very rarely
The infrequency of an event doesn’t determine its value or importance.
no, so I have this meteor hit insurance for you... it only costs 120% of your income
I’ve never had an accident so I guess I don’t need car insurance or seatbelts.
but you just said the infrequency of an event does not determine value or importance???
I guess you just realized how silly your previous comment was... good for you
be sure to use the seatbelt next time you plan to have an accident
This is hilarious. Re-read my comment and what you just wrote. You don't understand what the sentence "the infrequency of an event does not determine value or importance" means. To use smaller words, it means that just because something happens infrequently, doesn't mean we shouldn't care about or plan for it. Accidents happen infrequently, but they're a big deal when they happen. An event can still be important even when it happens infrequently. You argued, above, that because something happens infrequently it's not important.
As your range gets low, it starts to vary a lot, but generally you are correct. The owners of my car joking call it "the guessometer". Not sure why you are getting do voted for being mostly right...
because it's social media... fellings > facts