Lol, it's pretty sad how polarizing this topic is. Some of the dumbest things I've heard about EVs and renewable resources in general are things like, "the sun is an unreliable source of energy". My response to that is generally, "you mean to tell me that a source that we LITERALLY set our clocks to is unreliable?". And then there are those that will insist the batteries are hazardous and I have to remind them of all the hazard warnings that you see at gas stations. My favorite has to be the infrastructure argument as they make it sound as if gas stations across the country just sprung up all over as a naturally occurring phenomenon. We at least already have the electric grid spread out all over the country. We just need power stations that aren't being blocked and defaced by derps that hate electric vehicles. I will never understand why there is so much hate towards the electric vehicle. Oh well. Some people will just have to get over it.
The power mix can improve, the fuel efficiency of an ICE vehicle won't. As well, power plants are significantly more efficient and produce fewer greenhouse gasses per kWh generated than the engine in a car.
To be more specific: The energy conversion efficiency of an ICE car is somewhere between 20 % and 40 %, depending on how you drive it. The energy conversion efficiency of a BV is approximately 65-70%.
It is funny to me that line of thinking. My uncle asked me what would happen to all the jobs for gas station workers if everyone went electric and I replied literally "that's not my problem". It's not encumbent on me to support a business model for the sake of the employees. Add chargers in the parking lots or something, who cares.
It's odd; this is an argument I hear most from folks who also warn me about socialism being some kind of dangerous deathknell for democracy. Socialism is bad, but they seem very concerned about society preserving jobs for gas station attendants... and large banks. Simultaneously they seem not very concerned about the wages made by the former and not bothered by those made by the latter. 🤷
A friend of mine working at CircleK told me that they see EV's as a big posibility. They are installing chargers at the gaz stations, and see the oportunity to sell, while the owners wait 10 - 30 minutes for charging.
if this was people's main concern, we'd still use horses.
This concern stems from math that is based on the idea that everyone will be charging their EVs during the day, while A/C is running and peak office power draws are online.
I believe that part of the "hate" of EV's is the feeling some people get that EV drivers think they are better than ICE car drivers. With the tribe mentality we humans still have, it's easy for people to put each other in separate camps so to speak, and then defend it or try to tear it down.
I actually think I'm better than ICE drivers, although I have to admit that I'm both (I promise I'm not bipolar!!).
My ZL1 is an engaging drive, but it's almost too engaging, literally. I have to manage what gear I'm in, roll into the throttle slowly so I don't look like a dbag at a stoplight, and then there's the expense of gassing it up. The Leaf I drive is much more simple. The one pedal driving, the idea of just plugging it in overnight or when I'm at work, I actually feel like I spend less time as I'm not sitting at a gas station to fill up, I charge the car and then go about my day doing other things. The only and biggest complaint I have (aside from the lack of ventilated seats, more specifically an issue with the leaf) is that I have to plan my day accordingly. If I don't bother charging overnight or during the day then I'll have to use my ICE to run errands. Aside from that, if I had to live with just an EV, I think I could manage.It‘s the other way around here: pretty much nobody has negative feelings about EVs (and why should they?!), but if you drive an SUV into a hip urban neighbourhood, people will roll their eyes and talk behind your back about how pathetic white old men are…
In America there is a fairly large cross-section of people who drive large diesel pickup trucks (yet never seem to haul anything in the back) that love large truck because they love large trucks. Many act as if people who drive EV's are all hippy, save the earth, wusses and are somehow a threat to their identity. As gas prices go up, I imagine these people will get even more irritated that an EV driver isn't hurting as much as them. There are people who are cutting public EV charge cables, block chargers to be ------------ etc. It's pretty ridiculous / sad.
Interesting.......very interesting. This is I guess the cultural difference between Germany and the US. Here you have Tesla drivers getting their cars "keyed" or getting cut off on the roads. Another plus for owning a i4 is that it doesn't scream that it's an EV. That was also one reason I bought the Volvo XC40 (which I'm trading in) because it doesn't look EV. Strange what some people dislike and show their displeasure of.
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