Recent content by 3laine

Price, accessory availability, price, way bigger frunk, price

I'm guessing it's kinda going to sound like that. That's what it sounds like in the BMW i3 we owned, which is a similar principle. Follow-up novel/rabbit trail: That said, the i3 has a ~35hp generator. I don't know if they've said what the power is for the Scouts, but the Ramcharger has a...

The Tesla charging stations are very competitively priced and known to be reliable. The Tesla "mobile connector" that Fenderfour mentioned is an exceptional value: like ~$230 or something, and it can do 120V and 240V (at 32A, which is a mid-range rate for 240V). That will get you ~13 miles to...

Many EVs don't take "hours" to go from 80% to 100%, or even from 0% to 100%. Just a few I googled quickly to get real numbers: Model S : 32 minutes from 0% to 80%, 32 minutes to go from 80% to 100% = 1:04 from 0-100%. Kia EV6 : 30 minutes from 0% to 80%, 25 minutes to go from 80% to 100% =...

A substantial number of current EVs can do 850 miles in a day, "with a recharge" of course. Perhaps you mean something more specific than what you wrote, but yes, many people are using EVs for longer trips.

The original example claim of “EVs weigh twice as much as ICE” was by me, and it was general, not truck specific. And trucks are basically the only time they ever come close. Cars are generally even closer in weight because they don’t put 200+ kWh batteries in them. EVs weighing twice as much as...

Nope. I don’t have to back off my point. Overgeneralizing outliers or old info as typical of EVs shows the problem of perception vs fact. My point has been the same all along: people should make specific pro/con comparisons considering their use case and specific vehicles and not listen to...

That is a fact, but it’s an outlier amongst EVs. My truck is 6080 lb. Another example of “this is a real thing, but there’s huge variation and the difference may not be as big as commonly believed.” If you’re comparing a work truck, non-hybrid half-ton to a Silverado EV with the biggest...

Obvious trolling.

Agreed, that's why I specified that some were false and some were exaggerated (not necessarily completely false). Many of the complaints about EVs, there is SOME truth to, or they WERE true, but it's reasonable to point out when complaints are exaggerated or out of date, while still noting that...

Yeah, we owned all EVs for a while, too. We do more long trips than most Americans, and it's been no issue over the last 5+ years. (Road trips in 2015 in a non-Tesla was a different story, but that's a lifetime ago in EVs) We switched back to all-ICE, for a while, not because of capability, but...

I said it's not as simple as "those things are true". Several of the things were not actually true, or were exaggerated versions of real concerns. People should weigh the pros and cons *accurately* to make the best decision for them. Depends. My wife just drove with her mom to a funeral, ~1200...

Exactly. You have the right use case (multi-car family and the ability to charge at home, like many Americans) and realize there are still obvious use cases for both gas and electric with a bunch of use cases in between that requires weighing pros and cons.

It's not "mental hoops" to say that public perception is not the same thing as facts. Just because a lot of people believe something doesn't make it true. There are innumerable examples of this. They do if they want to get where they're going as fast as possible. Charging to 100% is a...

I'm just trying to diplomatically point out that public perception is just that, a perception, and only loosely based on fact. So, public perception can be exaggerated, based on old information, based on misinformation, etc., positive or negative, pro-EV or anti-EV. I'm in agreement with what...