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I'm on both sides of this. Had an EV for nearly 4 years and had to go back to gas for work (construction, moving/having tools, materials and supplies).
I cannot wait for an affordable small ev pickup. Even a not that affordable one. I just can't do $100k for an oversized monster like the Lightning. But give me a $60k Ranger/Frontier style (basically the smallest truck they make these days, without a full SUV on the front) and 500km range and I'm in.
I hate getting gas. I hate it so much.
People always forget that when you leave home with an EV, you always have a full "tank".
All you need is a house and a garage and room to keep your evs in there and an ev with a range big enough to handle all your travel needs or you'll still gave to own a 2nd vehicle that uses gas and then if you want to keep your ev past 100k miles just be sure to keep an extra $20,000 lying around for when the battery needs replaced.
But yeah, you can always leave home with a full tank. Of course, filling it to 100% also degrades the batteries faster. But don't worry. Your warranty will kick in once you lose about 1/3 of capacity. Sure ducks if your 300 mile range vehicle (when the weather is right) can only go 220 miles, but that isn't quite bad enough for warranty coverage.
We've entered the fact-free zone again with the mental sloth.
Still haven't answered why after 120yrs of internal combustion evolution, best they can do still gets less than 5% energy after drivetrain losses to moving your fat smelly ass:
What embarrassing efficiency from ICE vehicles, with hybrid vehicles being a low quality bandage.
I agree with you for the most part but I love my fuckin volt hybrid man.
I can make it back and forth to work on pure electric, I can go shopping, I can go into town and come back.
If I need to go further than commute distance, I just go and the gas kicks in when it's out of juice. When I get to my target location if there are charges around I pull up and charge, If not that's okay too. I run through about 7 gallons of gas every two or three months.
Glad you enjoy it, it's good that a fuel transitional vehicle is working for you. It can't be the stopping point in vehicle evolution, which is what I fight with this guy's constant disinformation about.
Imagine lying about being an engineer in an attempt to get more clout lol.
Anyway drive safe, glad you don't have those garbage Toyotas that are like 15mi range all electric. 😂