TESLA NAMED CHEAPEST LUXURY CAR BRAND TO MAINTAIN:‘I WILL NEVER OWN A GAS CAR AGAIN'

Joe Capitalist said:
Most new EVs have at least 300 mile range and I've been driving my Tesla Model Y for over two years and have yet to find a charger that wasn't available.
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Do you live in an urban area? Tesla has done a better job at providing the charging stations than other manufacturers. We live in a very sparsely-populated part of the country, the U.P. of Michigan. Tesla paid to have several chargers installed at the Meijer store in Marquette. There is no Tesla dealer here and very few owners, but they put them in anyways. There are only two other charging stations in town.
 
Nordberg said:
Your car's computer tells you how many miles you have when you start. Then it shows how many miles you have left as you drive. The computer does not stop people from being stupid though. Many people have run out of gas. That is why they carried approved gas cans in their trunks.
Type in charging stations on your phone an it will show you all them around you.
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Which doesn't change that I need to be able to charge to get back, and taking a trip without being 100% certain that I can is a seriously limiting factor in whether I take that trip using my EV.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Exactly. It was a five hour drive for my daughter between where we stayed in Maine, and their home in Vermont. She had to plan the drive around charging stations, which sometimes made the trip longer (mileage-wise). It also made it longer if the charging stations were being used and they had to wait. Charging time also depends on the strength (speed?) of the charging station. The ones in Maine were pathetically slow.

EVs are pretty great but I think we will wait till 1) battery storage time is longer, and 2) there are more stations available. As it is now, we couldn't drive the 680+ miles down to the STL area where our youngest lives, on one charge.
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Yes, this.

There is also the problem of the infrastructure. In CA they have rolling brownouts on a regular basis, imagine adding 220 volts of car charging on a regular basis to that. They simply do not have the ability to produce enough reliable energy to maintain their population. I know the population there is getting smaller as the people move out, but not fast enough to make that better... They don't even allow new power stations, how do they figure they'll be able to meet the requirements for that much new energy production.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Exactly. It was a five hour drive for my daughter between where we stayed in Maine, and their home in Vermont. She had to plan the drive around charging stations, which sometimes made the trip longer (mileage-wise). It also made it longer if the charging stations were being used and they had to wait. Charging time also depends on the strength (speed?) of the charging station. The ones in Maine were pathetically slow.

EVs are pretty great but I think we will wait till 1) battery storage time is longer, and 2) there are more stations available. As it is now, we couldn't drive the 680+ miles down to the STL area where our youngest lives, on one charge.
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EV range is constantly being extended, Detroit installed charging in some roads. They will charge EVs while you drive on them. The technology is moving rapidly.
 
Damocles said:
Yes, this.

There is also the problem of the infrastructure. In CA they have rolling brownouts on a regular basis, imagine adding 220 volts of car charging on a regular basis to that. They simply do not have the ability to produce enough reliable energy to maintain their population. I know the population there is getting smaller as the people move out, but not fast enough to make that better... They don't even allow new power stations, how do they figure they'll be able to meet the requirements for that much new energy production.
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Good points. I don't think gas-powered vehicles are going anywhere soon, probably not even in your lifetime. For sure not in mine.
 
Nordberg said:
EV range is constantly being extended, Detroit installed charging in some roads. They will charge EVs while you drive on them. The technology is moving rapidly.
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It sure is. It's gonna cost a fortune, but American capitalism and ingenuity will help. Hope to hell that we're keeping up with China on this tech.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Do you live in an urban area? Tesla has done a better job at providing the charging stations than other manufacturers. We live in a very sparsely-populated part of the country, the U.P. of Michigan. Tesla paid to have several chargers installed at the Meijer store in Marquette. There is no Tesla dealer here and very few owners, but they put them in anyways. There are only two other charging stations in town.
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Some people may live in an area where EVs may not be practical for them. For me, since I'm retired, I don't do a lot of long distance driving.
I use public chargers probably 3-4 times a year. Mostly charge at home.
I can deal with the slight inconvenience of finding a charger and waiting 20 minutes 3-4 times a year for the pleasure of driving state-of-the-art technology.
 
Following the news that Hertz would slow its purchases from Tesla, German competitor Sixt is going a step further, discontinuing purchases of Tesla EVs and selling off the Teslas it does have. According to the report from Bloomberg, the bright orange rental company is showing major losses on its EV rental program this year simply because of the tanking residual values of its held stock of cars.

While Hertz is taking a step back from electric cars altogether, Sixt is directly singling out Tesla here, as it continues to increase its electric fleet. The company’s goal is to slowly replace its gasoline and diesel-powered cars until at least 90 percent of its fleet is electric, and it aims to do so by the end of this decade. Unless Tesla improves its quality, collision repair costs, and residual values, the second-largest rental fleet in Europe (and fourth-largest in the U.S.) won’t include cars from the American automaker.
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https://www.yahoo.com/autos/rental-company-sixt-begin-dumping-185900320.html
 
Hawkeye10 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1732966339185373633
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NEW REPORT REVEALS SHOCKING FACT ABOUT THE RISE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE USE: ‘A HISTORIC TRANSFORMATION’

“Electric vehicles are changing the status quo.”
by Ben Raker*/*December 8, 2023

https://apple.news/ACn2o4WNYSSuWlh7sgT-zjA

Global sales of electric vehicles appear to be picking up speed as quickly as an EV with the pedal down (and, yeah, that’s pretty fast).

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report in April saying it expected global EV sales to jump 35% in 2023 compared to an already record-setting 2022.
Also, IEA upped its forecast of EVs’ share of the overall market, saying they could account for 35% of new vehicles sold globally by 2030. This was a big increase from IEA’s prediction last year that EVs would account for less than a quarter of the 2030 market.
The accelerated forecasts reflect continuing trends in EV demand that will have major implications for the worldwide energy industry, according to the IEA. The movement toward EVs and away from gas-powered vehicles could also be very good news for the world’s climate.
IEA reported that worldwide sales of electric cars totaled more than 10 million in 2022 and that it expected 2023 sales to reach 14 million. For reference, that same number of gas-powered vehicles driven for one year would use more than 832,000 tanker trucks of gas, according to an EPA calculator.
IEA’s Global EV Outlook 2023 report proclaimed “explosive growth” that tracked EVs’ share of overall sales from around 4% in 2020 to 14% in 2022, and finally, a projected 18% this year. Steeply sloping charts of recent and projected sales in different countries align with the dramatic ramping up of EV sales, along with their further potential.

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Me and my son's family went electric in 2015 and we will never go back. We started with Volts and moved to Bolts. We are very pleased with them.
 
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