Can anyone give a review of an electric car?

[robocop666]

I hear they are awful and expensive to look after. They also randomly set on fire and the fires are lethal.

[smne35]

I have owned several electric cars over the last 5 years and what I hear, read about in news and magazines it's false misleading and is demonizing the electric cars reputation, last year and this past summer I drove my electric car across this country, I was told you can't do that with make it or find any place to charge, that's bull shit, there are charging stations all across this country, I had not one issue or problems finding one, did not have to go miles of the highway hell wal Mart across this nation has chargers, there's an abundance of chargers across this nation and the companies that operate them are the best at what the do, and the cost to fully charge my car is nothing compared to filling your tank with gas less than ten bucks most time I charge for free, I will never go back to buying gas, no oil changes no maintenance only rotate my tires when needed and brakes I rarely apply my brakes the electric motor does an excellent job at slowing my car plus recharging the batteries as I slow to a stop, I have a23, vw id4 great car drive out cross country this past August and had a great time ready to go again, don't believe the hype and negativity you read about ev, s discover for yourself, like anything we create you can't please everyone I love my electric car and Tesla is overrated and over priced not hating on then just saying there much better cars out there for less than you would post for a Tesla in my view they're ugly,

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

All I can say is that they're a really dumb idea and it's not going to work.

Where are these people going to charge their mandatory electric cars?

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

100 charging stations for 2 million people?

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

We don't have enough electricity to drive electric cars.

[robocop666]

yup they increase power across the whole country. Some places are struggling with them.

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

I remember in California they were telling people not to charge their cars because they were having brownouts and blackouts.

[Iamagoodguy]

I mean most of thoes people don't use cars already because that's a stupid thing to do in such a dense city centre and thoes that do live out of the city so out of the city center

[scentoflavender]

As a co owner of an electrical company I love them. We do between 2 and 10 charger installs a month. Usually pretty simple and pays well.

[robocop666]

yeah pays well. Unsafe to be around and useless to drive.

[EmmaMary]

We're both hoping that the time never comes when we have to, or compelled to get one of these awful contraptions. 🤞

[robocop666]

no in the future they will fail and be banned. Just like before. This is the third time in history we went electric and the 2 other times they failed. The first cars were electric and then again in the 60s. History repeats itself.

[EmmaMary]

Oh how I so hope you are right.

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

In 12 years there are 17 states that are going to outlaw the sale of new gas cars. It's an incredibly stupid idea, but they're all blue states.

[robocop666]

@ItsALongWayToTheTop it will not happen they simply do not work and are dangerous.

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

I agree with you. And even if they did work , we don't have the infrastructure for it.

[EmmaMary]

@ItsALongWayToTheTop

And here in the UK we most certainly don't.

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

I think that what's going to happen in the states is if you're in California you just have to go to Texas to buy your car. The car dealerships in California are really going to be screwed.

[EmmaMary]

Thank you so much @robocop666 for the MHO.

[robocop666]

The world needs to know of the dangers of these things. Spread the word on social media. They will kill and injure people and harm the environment and economy. I gave you MHO as you have some sense.

[exitseven]

I drove a hybrid car once. It was okay but having two power plant s seemed like it would be hard to get fixed. A guy from work had an electric car that he got as a loaner because he was having his Chevy Suburban fixed. We have a charging station at work so I helped him hook it up. He could not wait to get rid of this thing.
I looked at the Ford F-150 Lightning. It looked pretty cool but it was 20 thousand dollars more than a internal combustion powered truck. I aske the sales guy what the range was and he told me he did not know. It turns out it is 230 miles. not a lot.
Electric cars have good pickup, they are quiet and they have fewer moving parts.
They are expensive, they take a long time to charge. There are not a lot of charging stations and many times the ones that you go to are not working. the batteries need to be replaced and they are expensive. 15 or 20 thiusand dollars for new batteries. Then you have to pay to have them recycled or maybe you just dump them bu the side of the road and let them leach into the water table. And then there is the chance of a fire. If you had one in your garage it would burn your house down.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Fires are generally lethal.

But electric don't go up in flames out without cause, such as an accident.

It is true they require a different method to extingiush as lithium is an alkali metal, which does react violently with water, so water on a lithium battery is only making the fire worse.

And cars are always expensive to repair and look after.

The main problem for electric cars are the infrastructure, lack of charging stations, and they are too big. Giant SUV or even a truck needs a huge battery which is super heavy and requires and even bigger battery.

So take a look at the charging stations around you, if there are some, go for a small electric car.

[robocop666]

no they randomly go up its called thermal runaway. I have seen it on videos on the internet. Its terrifying.

[Astarlessnightsky]

You see all sorts of stuff on the internet, one really popular video shows not an electric car but a russian transporter, with propane bottles which explode.

[madhatters4]

I have a 2021 Chrysler Pacifica

i love it. that's the review. no issues. not one. saved tons of money on fuel compared to how much it costs to charge. you also don't realize how much ambient noise and vibration comes from a combustion engine until you are in an e/v and literally hear and feel nothing

[robocop666]

ok what about the high cost of maintenance of the wheels? I also hear the battery wears down every 5-10 years depending on how you look after it. It's not old enough to have that happen. When it does its 10,000 to replace it.

[madhatters4]

no maintenance on wheels as yet. besides you pay for new tires on any car every couple of years. the battery life is intended to last the lifetime of the car. the current life expectancy are 10-20 years per JD Power... and this will improve as the tech development improves.

[robocop666]

it will not improve. Batteries have never improved in our lifetime. They keep saying they will but they don't its all lies.

[madhatters4]

what do you mean? lithium batters could barely power watches when i was kid. now they power buildings.

[robocop666]

the size increased not quality. The batteries will never improve. 5 years for a replacement will never change.

[madhatters4]

it's not 5 years? you are literally making up stuff. the warranty covers the battery in that time anyway.

[robocop666]

does it? ok

[Iamagoodguy]

Robocop stop talking out your ass density has increased and prices have fallen for batteries and new battery technology like solid state batterys and others are being recerched right now u just hate EV's or just hate change prob both

[madhatters4]

@Iamagoodguy there seems to be a weird ideological block to EV cars. I'm convinced it's just consumption of media, media likely influenced by special interests, that effectively mislead people. we've seen the battery ranges go from 50miles to 520 miles in less than 10 years. we've seen a massive network of charging stations and universal availability of at home charging at a 120v capacity. people site car fires but can find far more car fires in combustion engine vehicles compared to EV's.

it all just seems to be propaganda, probably from those who are threatened by the emergence of EV's, that have convinced naive people to have a completely irrational fear

[robocop666]

@Iamagoodguy can you spell anything at all?

[robocop666]

technology is barely increasing they just lie. They will fail in the end.

[madhatters4]

how hasn't the tech improved? 40 miles > 550 miles... you literally are so down the propaganda the hole basic exponential math seems to elude you

[robocop666]

they need more size and charging and still suck

[madhatters4]

need more size? what size?

charging doesn't suck. haha. do you own a freakin e/v? stop talking out of your ass. it's the height of ignorance to talk about something you clearly don't know anything about except what has been fed to you. i haven't heard a single person complaining about their ability to charge their car and i certainly haven't had an issue once in the years i've owned mine

[robocop666]

did you see the videos of the fires?

[madhatters4]

have combustion engine cars ever caught on fire?
25.1 of every 100k E/Vs catch on fire
1,000 of every 100k ICE (internal combustion engine) cars catch fire.

so a combustion engine vehicle is 40x's more likely to catch fire than a E/V.

[robocop666]

thats a lie where did you get this from? are businesses banning combustion engines cause they catch fire? nope

[madhatters4]

the facts come from the NHTSA and Car and Driver that did the research.

we can be done. you are so down the rabbit hole you couldn't see the light if you tried. i don't understand your irrational aversion to a technology that is growing rapidly and serves as an alternative to the norm. my guess is you get your info from outlets propped up by the oil industry. but anyway have fun with your ICE. I'll live the cheaper, cleaner, safer life in my E/V

[robocop666]

they emit like 4-5 times the carbon emissions of gas cars. They waste loads of electricity.

[madhatters4]

wrong again.
"Production of EVs and batteries generate more CO2 before the first wheel turns, however, the total carbon footprint of ICE vehicles quickly overtake that of the EVs after 15,000 miles (24,140 km) of driving."

waste electricity? uh, this doesn't make a lick of sense. you use energy to run each car. the point is the source of energy and is that energy clean or not

[robocop666]

ok think what you want. Just watch them fail overtime

[madhatters4]

fewer fires, no large issues with the lithium battery not reaching life expectancy, no grid issues... but sure we'll watch for your completely un-informed conspiracies to occur

[OfMiceandMen]

The only advice I have is check to see if you have the right setup/service coming into your place before buying one. I've heard some people had to upgrade their electrical panel and sometimes it's just not possible in the older parts of the city to set the charging station up in your own home.

[Redstang88]

Quiet, instant power, very little maintenance. I love my old hot rods but I see the perks of an EV for a daily

[robocop666]

how old is it? the batteries run down after 5+ ears and you need to spend 10,000 on a new one.

[Redstang88]

Don’t have one, but I’ve been in lots and can see the appeal

[Redstang88]

Still cheap compared to rebuilding an engine and trans

[FunkyMonkee]

They suck!!