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But our kids and grandkids live almost 2000 miles away We got the pickup and camper shell so we can drive and sleep wherever along the way. Now - it would be great I suppose if our jeep was electric because we mostly just drive it around the property. But I'm never going to live long enough to pay off that sort of investment.
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We have two 4x4 pickups, a 4Runner, and a Jeep
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01-14-2021, 04:28 PM | #28 |
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I am a complete exception in that I put anywhere from 30,000-40,000 miles per year on a vehicle. I do engineered sales and service and have filled up my tank twice in a day very often. EV would be totally impractical for me. Also, everyone doesn't live in the suburbs although the majority does.
It's sort of a shell game to me at this point. People are starting to "get" the electrical grid and power drawback but still don't hear near enough about the total environmental impact of the batteries from mining to grave. I think EV's are great and are getting better all the time but they are not to the planet saver status with me just yet. You need to be selling a ton of them at a $20K price point to make this make sense.
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As said, not practical for everyone yet. These will likely never be intended for much long highway use.
Such is the same for natural gas medium duty and heavy trucks. Currently municipalities and others using ng powered trucks operate in a roughly 100 mile radius mainly due to limited refueling locations. It will take time to extend the nominal operating range of alternate fuel vehicles. As far as the cost of ev, for sure they take into account the consumer's fuel savings $ at the pump when calculating the prices of their vehicles. The money you would spend on gas you can now spend on a ev.
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Elon Musk's plan I have heard is that you would drive into a bay a machine would remove the battery pack and replace it with freshly topped off batteries . Take about 10 minutes and your on your way again
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It doesn't cost anything to plug in your car to an electric outlet ?????
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so if you only take two trips a year on the highway, rent a camry or splurge on a suburban with their 44 gal bladder buster tanks, and go 4-5-600 miles between fillups and when you get home drive your 58 miles a day in the EV. but, just like my brother just WANTED a huge truck (moving the trailers was a red herring), people who want EVs just want them, and people who dont just dont. either way is fine, no one really cares what you spend your money on, living 100 miles out of town, buying 100k EVs, literally no one cares. dowhatchoolike.
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Yep!
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Except "they" want to force us to drive some sort of little electric thing, or not drive at all since there won't be enough juice to charge it anyway.
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I am hoping with the introduction of these EV we can get back to making cool looking cars instead of cars that look like eggs for the sake of fuel mileage. I understand that the more aerodynamic your car is the further range you'll get out of a car, but what if this means that they can start making bodies that they otherwise wouldn't be able to. I know this is just a pipe dream but let me have my fantasy lol.
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