I don't really get the concept or appeal of an electric truck or really an ICE truck for that matter. At least an electric SUV is more aerodynamic. I guess you can haul light to moderate loads occasionally while paying a price premium? I would go with an electric car just to get my return on investment as soon as possible.
I suspect we are close to exhausting the early adopters, so sales will start to flatten out for a while.
In the meantime, the charging infrastructure and tech will improve and then the snowball will start rolling downhill at an increasing rate. Exactly when is the only real debate... My best guess is another 5-10 years.
As a single-car household, I would not buy an EV at this point. But by the time I am in the market again, I suspect I will only look at EV's.
There is going to be slower sales, but I bet you ICE sales will also be slower. The era of cheap financing appears to be coming to an end.
You're Being Lied to About Electric Cars
Science has repeatedly shown EVs are better for humans, despite the meme you just retweeted.
^ This. Just another push to make people believe something that isn't real.
i've just heard too many horror stories from folks with full EVs.
will be looking pretty hard at luxury hybrid SUVs when i decide to move on from my GV80.
I have an electric car and haven't had any major issues. But I agree that it would be better to have great public transit and less driving cars.
yes. public transportation is better in many ways than everyone owning cars. but car culture isn't just going to go away. that isn't a real option. so to say that EV's are worse for the environment than public transportation, fine, but they are still significantly better than the alternative vehicles those 50 people would have been driving, and can much more easily become a real replacement option.
If youve made the decision that cars are the only way our society can function you may be victim to motornormativity.
It took decades and trillions in public investment to rebuild american society around the car. We arent going to flip a switch and fix the problem tomorrow. Also, I am not against people owning a car. I am just against society subsidizing the cost of ownership of cars.
That’s not what josefromtulsa is saying. The belief is that in certain instances, electric vehicles can create a false dichotomy by encouraging consumers to think switching to electric instead of gas fixes most or all issues related to motor vehicles, especially environmental concerns, which leads to an illusion that enough has been done to fix those concerns. That in turn can lead to complacency or inaction by a segment of the populace that previously was more active in combatting the issues at hand, then just starting the cycle over (unsustainable city planning, insufficient public transportation, uncontrolled sprawl, increasingly longer commutes, thinning resources, etc) but with a relatively better environment. It’s not that these issues will definitely come into play, but that without proper planning, cooperation, communication, education, among other things, it can add to what increasingly seems like a losing battle.
i mean that literally isn't what i said. but even if we went full mass transit, there will still be gas powered vehicles, think in Europe how they still have delivery trucks, etc. Public transit can not replace every situation, even in those places. so having an EV infrastructure to support even changing over those vehicles that would still exist, as well as last-mile travel options, would still be an improvement over gas powered options that exist today. Public transit can not replace everything, and never will. hence, it is not a real option. I fully support public transit and which we would see a lot more planning and building of this infrastructure. but public transit does not solve all transportation needs, and thus EV's still have a very real place in the world.
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