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Ummā¦are you dense? After a storm you can literally move your EV miles and charge it at a charging station, like you can find a gas station, but maybe just a little farther (and that is improving all the time).
This tech is going to be the game changer that canāt be stopped. All anti EV arguments will sound silly when this is the norm.
Think about thisā¦the price of oil would have to drop to levels well below profitability for ICE to compete due to huge efficiency difference. Meaning, they canāt.The world will change.
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Driving gas burning cars is the patriotic thing to do. 
BYD doesnāt sell cars here (I think).
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I bought my first Tesla because I thought it was a great car. I liked it so much, last month, I traded it in for a new one. I also have a 4-cylinder ICE SUV and a muscle car with a V-8 (just sold a 99 Trans Am and got a 25 Mustang GT).
I donāt care how my purchasing decisions effects others outside of my wife and son.
How many EVās do you have?
One, why?
Note: someone flagged my post and it was subsequently removed.
Iāll change one word here to restore someoneās lost sensitivity.
Letās try this again:
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Everyone benefits from clean air, clean water a toxin free soil.
Environmentalists arenāt buying EVs for purely selfish reasons but ICE purchasers donāt seem to care about how their decisions affect others, in my opinion.
Leaving behind an $800 gas bill for a $726 car note, not to mention oil, fluids, filters, belts, hoses, spark plugs, mufflers, etc. YMMV
But there is something else too. Many wonāt buy an EV lest having an issue of looking too āprogressive . Canāt have any of that!
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Do you also have an ICE car?
No sir, but with all due respect, what does one personās choice have to do with anything? Donāt quite understand your point, @Travelingcoog help me out.
I decided a few years back that when it came time for a new car it would be an EV. I decided it was time for a new car.
On a personal note, my brand new Ioniq 6 is a sweet sweet ride. I drove it off the lot on May 31, at 4:45pm. I got rear-ended in a pile up on I45 at 8:45pm the same day. Didnāt even get to drive it home and wonāt get it back for another three weeks due to supply chain backlog due to tariffs. Physically Iām ok but mentally Iām ready for a white room with padded walls and I digress.
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First off, Iām very glad you arenāt hurt. If the person who hit you has insurance, make sure you file a claim for diminished value. A carās resale value goes down when there is an accident.
Less important is the reason for the question. I wanted to know if you were being hypocritical. Thank you for answering.
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Chris the battery technology is new. See the posts above on the solid state
batteries on BYD models. The US is slow to adopting EV compared to China and
EU. Anything the government can do that benefits all citizens is a plus to me.
And yes itās all citizens because itās less polluting and helps rollout and industry
buildout of a more efficient vehicle and the scaleout drives down the cost to
build these technologies. Everybody wins. Rebates were a good idea. But that
does not mean they should be indefinite, for any technology.
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Thanks for the heads up on diminished value. Iāll mention it to the adjuster.
Sorry to hear that Johnny. Glad youāre ok.
https://insideevs.com/news/763231/ev-battery-degradation-life-gas-car-comparison-age/
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Yes subsidies for business and in methods that allow for those at low incomes and high incomes to both benefit.
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I would rather be dense I think than a complete air head.
There are over 10,000 gas pumps in Houston alone (not counting suburbs) (over 1100 gas stations). Greater Houston area has several hundred charging stations.
I can fill my gas tank in 5 minutes, while and EV to 80% will take 40 min to a couple hours.
Take that now with say 100,000 people affected by power at home and let me know the times for all those to use those charging stations vs a gas pump.
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I share many of your opinions, but some take it as being anti-EV
Lots of EV advocates are hoping for a full on nationwide embrace of EVs while ignoring the real obstacles
I agree that the most efficient (both costs and logistics) would be the scaling of both EV and Public Transit, however, this type of transportation systemic is next to impossible to come to fruition due to politics, economics and culture
Most Americans expect transit methods to stay the same, and this is exactly why EVs are going to struggle to break through unless there is a significant technological breakthrough in both batteries and battery storage that reflect the density and reliability of fossil fuel/ICE-based infrastructure
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Electricity is everywhere, easy enough to place a charging station anywhere. Easier than a gas station.
Charging stations are easier to place 100%, the issue is the grid infrastructure.
This is where gas stations benefit from (in addition to the fact that pumping a full tank take a mere 5 minutes whereas a full charge takes 30+ minutes
Itās apples to oranges really. Both have pros and cons.
Any path forward is going to have to be a cultural change from an entire century of inertia, and thatās the most difficult aspect of this ātransitionā
The grid is fine we are adding new houses and factories all over Texas and itās not bringing down the grid. Or do you thing those new Buccees are gas powered.