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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss (www.autoexpress.co.uk)
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[–] 180 points 3 months ago (151 children)

Literally every single person that I talked to that seriously tried an EV (like, as a daily driver for some time, not just the rental you had for a day) said they were never going back to combustion engines.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I don’t have an EV, but I can imagine it would be nice to not have to go to the gas station once a week.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I've had an EV for a couple of years and had to rent a gas car on a trip recently. I was prepared for the expensive fuel, I wasn't prepared for how shit it was to drive.

    See, an EV's electric motor and (usually) single reduction gear means you get basically the same acceleration between 5 km/h and 120 km/h. You can put your foot down slightly and forget you're accelerating because it feels just like sitting in a stationary car on a hill. How far you push the accelerator is how much acceleration you get. Unless you're getting wheel spin or you're at the car's power limit, that's all there is to it.

    A gasser has an engine with different performance depending on RPM and a gearbox that provides different performance based on which gear it's in and changes according to it's own logic. You're just used to this when you drive one all the time, but for me it was awful the way I'd put my foot down and get nothing, then engine noise, then some power, then a lurch and more power and another lurch and less power. The accelerator pedal is a suggestion, mostly disconnected from what the car actually chooses to do.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Yes! About a year ago we went up a very curvy hill with the kids that has, in the past, always made everyone feel queasy, even the driver to some extent. But this year, it didn’t at all. I think it was because we were driving an EV, and without all of the hurky-jerky of the nonexistent transmission, it was way smoother.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I charge mine 80% of the time off the solar panels on my roof here in Australia. Making your own fuel is quite the thing.

    Another 10% is overnight on a cheap tariff

    and the other 10% public charging on longer trips.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    My partner loves their Civic. They will wait all day for me to get back from work so they can take the fake Mustang though. I still can't convince them to sell the Civic, but we're putting maybe 1000 miles on it a year now, probably a lot less, versus about 21,000 on the Mach-E

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Allow me to be the first.

    I drive an EV now. It's super convenient not having to fuel up once a week. It's nice just charging at home overnight. Long distance trips are not so convenient, but doable. The money savings on gas is significant, but tire usage seems to be higher, and depreciation is higher than any vehicle I've owned. There's the looming thought of having to replace the battery someday.

    More than anything, I'm tired of cars feeling like spaceships, and EVs are among the most space shippy.

    My next car will likely be an efficient but fun four door ICE hatchback (think European sensibility) from six or seven years ago if I can find one with low miles.

    No shade on those loving EVs, I think it's great that the majority of people are moving or would like to move away from ICE vehicles. But so long as they feel like spaceships to me and depreciate like room temperature milk, there's room in my garage for an efficient gasoline car.

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