I never make special trips for petrol, nor do I ever have to wait to get on a pump.
Calling bullshit on this. I drove a gas powered car for 16 years. Unless you started driving earlier this year, you’ve definitely done both of those things at this point.
You can get a shorter range EV if that fits your needs. Gas engine just adds weight and complexity.
Use a conventional hybrid for that, and you won’t need to lug around a lot of extra battery.
Wow… Sounds like one brand of cars known for having QC problems has QC problems.
Just get an EV then. Why lug around a gas motor that you don’t need?
Sure, a couple of minutes every week or so. Do you know how long it takes you to plug in and unplug an EV in every night? Literally less than 4 seconds. No special trips, no waiting for a pump, no authorizing with your card, no waiting for the actual fuel to go in the tank.
As for my longer trip, it only wastes 30 minutes if you do nothing with that time. I get lunch, or take a piss, or stretch my legs for a bit, or check out a local shop. When I do EV trips with non-EV drivers, they’re always amazed at how much of a non-hassle most charging experiences are.
My partner and I prefer to use the EV for some of our longer trips (2+ hours) because of it’s comfort features, “fuel” economy, quietness, and how it doesn’t stink like a gas car does. Charging stops are a non-issue, a surprising amount of places have destination chargers at them or nearby. Just plug the car in, enter payment, and go do whatever you were going to do that day, and have a “full tank” when you get back. The only people I hear complain about how awful it is to make a charging stop, are people who have never had do one.
My electricity is $0.09/kwh, or about $0.15/kwh when you factor in the bullshit fees AEP slaps on…
I also just looked up the average residential cost of electricity…
Just did the math on my whole bill. My actual price per kWh is $0.19, so more than 18, waaaaay less than 24, I also pay extra for 100% green power generation and I live in an area that is known for its electric utility corruption.
My hurdle to adopting electric is their so goddamned expensive that they can’t outweigh oil, gas, and service costs yet.
Yeah, that is the real issue with EVs, and probably the only complaint I’ve seen in all these comments that is valid.
It shocks people when I tell them this, but I did NOT buy an EV to save money. In most situations, buying a new (to you) car will cost you more than fixing the old car many times over. So I’m not shocked that I’m paying more for the EV. I’m more shocked that with the insane cost of gas lately, my EV is getting close to breaking even on monthly driving cost compared to my partner’s civic.
I think it’s funny that the complaint people bring up in these kinds of threads; that EVs aren’t that “green”, that they are unreliable, that charging is inconvenient, or that they aren’t practical… is completely wrong, and people who have EVs love them because they are exactly the opposite of that.
Average residential electric cost is $0.18/kwh, and the average new car fuel economy is 29mpg combined then yes, if you inflate the cost of electricity by 25% and reduce the fuel cost of the car by 17% then the ICE car is nearly as cost effective as an EV.
Not OP, but conventional hybrids are alright. Plug-In hybrids are kind of a waste, and really only see benefits in very niche situations.
My partner loves their Civic. They will wait all day for me to get back from work so they can take the fake Mustang though. I still can’t convince them to sell the Civic, but we’re putting maybe 1000 miles on it a year now, probably a lot less, versus about 21,000 on the Mach-E
Your EV charges at home while you are sleeping. I spend less time “refueling” my EV than I spent putting gas in my hybrid, even including the occasional fast charging stops.
You can already drive cross country in almost any EV. There are more charging stations in my area than there are gas station.
Mechanically, EVs are very simple. Cost and “complexity” (app, touchscreens, etc) are rampant in ICE cars today as well, so buying one of those won’t really make a difference there either.
It weighs like 9lbs. Literally the most stable and planted laptop I’ve had since 3rd grade.
Pretty much every thing about it.
It’s a weird maneuver. People get into the passing lane to pass. If you get into the passing lane and hit the brakes, you are just asking to confuse the people behind you.
It sends confusing information to the people behind you. If I see the car ahead of me hop out of lane while clearly not in a passing situation, it’s usually because there is something hazardous in the road, and I need to dodge it as well, I’d be moving out of lane pretty much the exact moment you started slamming your brakes.
You have less visibility behind you than you do in front, making the maneuver much more dangerous. You might be popping out of lane to do your “Reverse pass” at the exact moment the person behind you, in or a person behind them decides to pass. You could also get stuck in a situation where you go for the “reverse pass” and realize that there is actually more cars behind you than you expected, and now you’re stuck going slow in the wrong lane with no way to get back over.
Cars can (almost) always brake faster than they can accelerate. If you need to get back into your original place because it is unsafe to complete the pass, it’s a lot easier to slow down to get back to it, than it is to accelerate to get back to it.
Don’t “reverse pass”. In fact, you really should pull your post or edit it to advise people not to do it. It’s illegal, it’s dangerous and it will get people hurt or killed. This is not a joke or a shit-post. I’m dead serious.
Computer is an old Lenovo P71. Has 4 slots with a maximum of 16GB per slot.
At some point, the man and the myth diverge into separate entities. John Henry was a real person, but the contest between him and the steam drill as remembered by folklore did not actually happen that way.
There has been no shortage of people named Jesus. “The Jesus” was probably not the only man named Jesus at the time. That being said, walking on water, coming back to life, turning a person into a pillar of salt, definitely the acts of a mythical version of Jesus that never existed.
Reverse passing is just like it sounds - passing in reverse. You enter the left lane, slow down rapidly, and then move back over. You force the driver behind you to pass you whether they want to or not.
No no no. God sweet Jesus no. NEVER EVER DO THAT.
If you want someone to pass you, here is what you do. Wait until there is a clear stretch of road for them to pass on, and move your car as far to the right as possible so they can see around you easily, and then let them pass if they want to. If you really want to encourage them, slow down just a tad, maybe 3-5 mph, and if that doesn’t work, throw on your hazards too.
I’m looking for 64 GB (4x16) DDR4-2400 SODIMM. It is going to run me like 350 bucks… For used modules.
Absolutely ridiculous.
In that case, it’s better to just run a conventional hybrid if you frequently need to take long trips.