28 Jun 2023 2:52 pm
I don’t think people realize how quickly nobody will want a gasoline car that costs $60 to fill up when they are parked beside an electric that’s cheaper, that only costs $6.ROG62 » 28 Jun 2023, 2:28 pm » wrote: ↑ Not realistic bruce...not sure where you live, but in MN, winter will destroy the purported range...
hybrid is the best of both worlds until the shortcomings of EVs disappear...and there are a lot...
cost (too high)
range (too short)
longevity (unknown)
to name a few..
Every place we buy gas will have Class 3 (30 minute) chargers in only a few years.
The range is less, but at least as much in the dead of winter as all the pre 1973 dinosaurs that only had a 200 mile range. Long range cars, are a fairly recent development.
I turned 16 in 1974. The price of gas had doubled from 25 cents to 50 cents.
The price of the typical 9 mpg car fell like a stone.
People bought **** little cracker boxes instead.
The new electrics will be very nice, traditional cars.
An electric motor on an axle is many thousands of dollars cheaper to build than a gasoline drivetrain. The car, remains essentially the same.
And the kids will buy thousand horsepower electric cars, with multiple motors. We’ll settle for four or five hundred horsepower.
I never knew or thought about an electric car having a 60% efficiency compared to the 20% efficiency of what we drive now.
I knew wind turbines were getting cheaper but could not imagine that today, a new wind turbine installation is the cheapest source of electricity at two cents a kilowatt.
I don’t think I’ll ever buy into man made climate change.
But we’ll all drive electrics if we live ten more years, and because of economics, not to save the planet.