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Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] BURN 0 points 6 months ago (9 children)

At least for me the reasons are

  1. Lack of interest
  2. They're ridiculously Ugly
  3. Range (I’ve driven 1500 miles in the last 3 weeks)
  4. Driving Experience is worse (opinion, but still something I stand by)
  5. Charging
  6. Price

When I was looking at new cars an EV wasn’t even an option. I wanted a 2 door performance coupe and there isn’t anything even close to that in EVs, let alone on the used market. A 2014 Audi was a better choice in almost every metric beyond gas prices.

[–] Cheesus 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why is charging bad? Id argue it's a plus. You never have to go to a gas station and every morning you wake up with a full charge for your day.

[–] BURN 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t have a place to charge at home, nor a way to run a cord from my apartment to a car, so charging becomes a 20-30 minute ordeal instead of a 3 minute tank of gas on my way to work.

[–] Cheesus 1 points 6 months ago

That's fair. Charging infrastructure isn't ready if you can't charge at home

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