Nobody’s saying it will never change, they’re saying they’re shit now and that’s the reason nobody’s buying them.  Your BEV won’t magically get better when advancements are made, won’t magically get longer range, won’t magically charge faster, you’re stuck with what you bought.  And right now, those specs aren’t…

Not if you park on the curbside or if your employer doesn’t see the profit in installing chargers which will incur a financial expense to put in and will in no way generate revenue for them. Take your weaksauce first adopter crap somewhere else, techbro.

You’re not wrong. Some of the distortion is due to public charging being free (programs like “no charge to charge”) or bundled into the price of the EV (e.g. Tesla). One can imagine a future with public charging having a price, especially during times of high demand.

My biggest concern about the UK going all electric is what is the govenment going to Tax to make up for the loss if revenue. Fuel duty taxx brings in nearly £30 million a year. Not to mention the VAT on top of it. Fuel being essentially taxed 3 times (Fuel Duty tax, VAT on that duty and then VAT on the fuel itself). 

Range anxiety is a thing, and it most certainly is legitimate. It just isn’t necessarily limited to the actual distance being traveled. I would relate it more to the time it takes to recharge. Last week I forgot to plug my phone in overnight and I had 13 percent battery when I got up. No big deal, I’ll just charge my…

Neutral: I have charging port availability anxiety. If 100 people (500, 1000 during a holiday?) need to charge their car for 30 minutes in a given area over the course of a day in the middle of Virginia because they are all on road trips, what is the distribution going to look like? The most likely answer is that it…

No, but recharge time-stealing is. I don’t want my precious free hours spent having to recharge a car and mall crawl while it happens. Sub five minute recharge times so it fits in with my current lifestyle, that is what it is going to take.

“I mean, how often do you find yourself driving over 200-250 miles when not on vacation?”

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Neutral: Range anxiety is somewhat of a concern for me, especially for winter driving. I live in upstate central NY and winter temperatures are often in the teens and single digits.

I don’t have range anxiety, I have over-loaded infrastructure anxiety. How is the grid going to handle every home having two EVs to recharge (at roughly the same time) every night?

I also have landfill anxiety - what’re we going to do with millions of end-of-life batteries?

It looks like the wrecker accelerates as soon as it comes into frame, so I think from Aghas perspective it was stopped, and accelerated after he committed to the corner.

RE: #2: I think everyone is ok with a “racing incident” if it occurs but dodging vehicles cutting across an active racing surface with no warning is not part of what they signed up for.

Yeah, I kinda feel like this is where it should end (2018 Goldwing shown, so I know its kinda a different animal) Its got to be a combo of gauges for speed and tach and then everything else can be LCD. The reason being is that I have yet to find a automotive screen that at -14F like it gets here that can respond fast…

4th: So we’re going from this...

It’s saddening and disheartening to realize that so much of the campaigning in the world is indirect and dishonest like this, but it is. It takes highly educated, intelligent, logically-empowered citizens to sift through this BS, and we’re far from having enough of them to run a real working modern society. Scary…

Agreed on those stereotypes. I use mine(sierra 1500) to commute to downtown Boston every day to boston. I average 18mpg on my commute and 22mpg on the weekend trips. Like you I use it for towing and hauling msot weekends. Best case scenario, I get a commuter-beater but at an extra $1200/yr in insurance costs, its hard…

The hell kind of body shape do you have where your feeling restricted in an American pick up?

I’ll wait out the tariffs. I was going to get a new vehicle but it’s not necessary so the wait is on.