An EV is just so goddam smooth and silent to drive compared to an ICE. I feel like I'm driving an absolute luxury car, compared to my old ICE car, that was with leather cabin, and had a 2.2 liter engine. A higher mid range car here.
But the EV is just a so much better experience to drive. We've had it for almost a year now, and I still enjoy that sense of luxury, and also something that is harder to describe, but it's like it drives with confidence, in a way I've never experienced with an ICE car. I guess it has to do with all the power being available in an instant, no matter what speed you drive.

I know now why people say, when you have had an electric, you will never go back.

Yeah, in the US the attitude has been changing dramatically fast recently. The combination of the Iran war fucking gas prices and the 2025/2026 model year bringing sub-four-second 0-100km to less than $50,000 has really convinced even some of the hardliners (and it helps that car manufacturers finally realized EVs don't have to look like dumpy sedans any more, LOOKING AT YOU TOYOTA). And Rivian proving EVs can offroad has really launched an entirely new market, which has been great fun.

But EVs are going to crash the power grid. Can you imagine if every house got up at the same time everyday and made toast?! Chernobyl!!!

Data centres ok though.

One thing that is nice when charging compared to filling up gas, is that you just connect the plug, and than you can go to your car, and sit comfortably while the car is charging, or you can go have a snack or something. You are not tied to standing idly with the hose. So the extra time it takes to charge is not as much as a problem as I thought it would be when we bought an EV.

This is the thing so many ICE drivers get hung up on. They always talk about how quickly they can fill up and leave. But they ignore that you don't need to even go to a public charger like that most of the time if you charge at home. If you can't charge at home that's a different issue.

I only need to think of charging when traveling, and even then the car will automatically fill in charging stops asking the route at optimal points for the fastest charging. For healthy driving habits you should be getting out of the car regularly both for a mental break and to get up and get blood moving. Stopping to charge while you use the restroom and grab some food often takes more time than people think. I've come back to the car and only had to wait like 5 minutes most of the time, sometimes it's even already got enough charge when I get back.

in this case, it's probably a deliberate choice, because chargers in the wild are generally commonly rated anywhere from 11-350 kW, keeping it in kW gives drivers who are used to seeing '## kW' an easier time comparing without having to do mental math.

Well I just walked 12 billion nanometres to the toilet.

Bigger numbers always sound more impressive. Many hair dryers also have a power rating of 1200W. Also some policy package costing 700 million somehow sounds more than 1.1 trillion.

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1000 kilowatts is a megawatt. 1000 megawatts is a gigawatt. Still an impressive amount of power to push