But the online mediasphere is chock-full of EV haters regurgitating propaganda about how they’re worse for the environment, the posters suddenly care about child labor in foreign countries, and then there’s the regressive mentally 14 year old tools who can’t handle a car that doesn’t spew noise and exhaust everywhere to make people look at them because that’s a real car. But none of them have owned an EV.
I’m a big car fan, and IMO, the majority of car fans are backwards and stubborn. They can’t stand the idea of EV, they have to have the ability to make stupid power with lots of noise to drive to the mall. Thing is there’s room for both EV and ICE cars. They need to get a grip and stop hyperbolizing that it’s a binary choice, ICE is going to be around for a good while longer.
Eh, maybe this is just my opinon / hot take, but I think we really gotta stop burning petroleum and petroleum products, especially at the individual consumer level.
Yeah, but we can’t switch everyone over immediately. Don’t worry, the trend is there, and it’s good; soon the majority of new cars sold will be EVs, based on what I see. They’re just cheaper.
They need their emotional support vehicle to be noisy because otherwise they are not “real machos”. Driving a silent EV is for girlies, not for realmen™
I legit once saw an old guy stumble over to his giant ass pickup, physically struggle to pull out a step stool from the back seat and then proceeded to climb into the driver’s seat. It was legit terrifying.
My Volvo EX30 does the quarter mile in 7.5 seconds, and it only takes that long because it reaches its 180km/hr speed limiter before the end of the quarter mile.
And if you’re not stomping on the go pedal it’s also perfectly fine coasting around shopping centre car parks.
Aaaand it costs me $14.50 for a complete 0-100 percent charge at home, which it can do overnight after taking 10 extra seconds out of my day to plug it in. And then I’m good for another week or so of around-town driving.
But yeah, I can imagine if I had to haul 9000 pounds and 8 people back and forth across the entire continent every week like your typical regular car owner, yeah, I can see how it might be difficult to own an EV.
Mine isn’t quite that fast as it is a 3 row SUV. Nobody expects it to be as fast as it is though. It’s pretty fun to surprise people.
Cheap fillups are the best part. I have solar panels on my house as well so I get paid to drive mine lol
People do have a point about vehicle telemetry and complexity but that’s not unique to EVs or even vehicles in general. I do my best to avoid that kind of thing but it’s difficult when our whole economy revolves around stealing people’s data. You do the best you can in an imperfect world.
Facebook, according to the original headline. But I changed it because I knew I’d be getting 5 different comments from people getting hung up on the ‘Facebook’ part.
I’ve seen YouTube videos of those car sales guys talking to customers and then regretting getting an EV because of the distance/range and lack of charging stations and stuff.
How many of videos are real and all that, I have no idea. Also, most of those customers are rolling negative equity and stuff so not a great judgment.
There’s a car site for leaks and industry news called Auto Spies that just constantly shits on EVs. They used to be good for breaking new car info, but now they have a massively right slant on everything.
Uhh on what sites? Every driver I talk to online or otherwise have nothing but praise for EV.
Yes. Drivers.
But the online mediasphere is chock-full of EV haters regurgitating propaganda about how they’re worse for the environment, the posters suddenly care about child labor in foreign countries, and then there’s the regressive mentally 14 year old tools who can’t handle a car that doesn’t spew noise and exhaust everywhere to make people look at them because that’s a real car. But none of them have owned an EV.
I’m a big car fan, and IMO, the majority of car fans are backwards and stubborn. They can’t stand the idea of EV, they have to have the ability to make stupid power with lots of noise to drive to the mall. Thing is there’s room for both EV and ICE cars. They need to get a grip and stop hyperbolizing that it’s a binary choice, ICE is going to be around for a good while longer.
Eh, maybe this is just my opinon / hot take, but I think we really gotta stop burning petroleum and petroleum products, especially at the individual consumer level.
Yeah, but we can’t switch everyone over immediately. Don’t worry, the trend is there, and it’s good; soon the majority of new cars sold will be EVs, based on what I see. They’re just cheaper.
They need their emotional support vehicle to be noisy because otherwise they are not “real machos”. Driving a silent EV is for girlies, not for realmen™
Real men need stepladders to enter their vehicles.
I legit once saw an old guy stumble over to his giant ass pickup, physically struggle to pull out a step stool from the back seat and then proceeded to climb into the driver’s seat. It was legit terrifying.
Mechanics now need stepladders to look under the hood. It’s all incredibly fucking stupid.
EVs are fast as fuck without even trying. There’s nothing macho about watching an Ioniq 5 blow your gas guzzling street racer off the line.
My Volvo EX30 does the quarter mile in 7.5 seconds, and it only takes that long because it reaches its 180km/hr speed limiter before the end of the quarter mile.
And if you’re not stomping on the go pedal it’s also perfectly fine coasting around shopping centre car parks.
Aaaand it costs me $14.50 for a complete 0-100 percent charge at home, which it can do overnight after taking 10 extra seconds out of my day to plug it in. And then I’m good for another week or so of around-town driving.
But yeah, I can imagine if I had to haul 9000 pounds and 8 people back and forth across the entire continent every week like your typical regular car owner, yeah, I can see how it might be difficult to own an EV.
Mine isn’t quite that fast as it is a 3 row SUV. Nobody expects it to be as fast as it is though. It’s pretty fun to surprise people.
Cheap fillups are the best part. I have solar panels on my house as well so I get paid to drive mine lol
People do have a point about vehicle telemetry and complexity but that’s not unique to EVs or even vehicles in general. I do my best to avoid that kind of thing but it’s difficult when our whole economy revolves around stealing people’s data. You do the best you can in an imperfect world.
Pretty much all the torque is there on demand at whatever speed you happen to be doing, that’s the biggest difference I think.
There’s no changing down a gear or two to spool up the engine to get the acceleration. You want to go a little faster, you just press the pedal.
Facebook, according to the original headline. But I changed it because I knew I’d be getting 5 different comments from people getting hung up on the ‘Facebook’ part.
I’ve seen YouTube videos of those car sales guys talking to customers and then regretting getting an EV because of the distance/range and lack of charging stations and stuff.
How many of videos are real and all that, I have no idea. Also, most of those customers are rolling negative equity and stuff so not a great judgment.
There’s a car site for leaks and industry news called Auto Spies that just constantly shits on EVs. They used to be good for breaking new car info, but now they have a massively right slant on everything.