Even fully fossil fuel powered, EVs are at worst, equivalent to ICEs

The problem is the federal subsidies. I don’t live in a flood plain, yet I pay a portion of the costs. Same with the subsidized beachfront rates.

Until batteries improve weight to power density by orders of magnitude, any significant delivery distance just isn’t gonna work.

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That any ‘one’ incident can be 1/10 of a percent says either the total is small...or the leak is really really big - I’d bet on the latter.

re: Chevy Volt - I remember looking at one when it came out and yeah, just wow no trunk space

I’m not sure I follow you...EVs are almost to a one faster than any equivalent ICE. Tesla’s beat literal super cars years ago.

Exactly. Dealerships are “in spite of” not “because of”.

I had my convertible in the mid 90s before cell phones, so there wasn’t the accoutrements of accessories to worry about being stolen. But it was also good incentive to not keep crap in the car.

Don’t believe I said my bills literally went down, apologies if I implied that. But you will see a reduction in electric usage due to these bulbs.

ten year break even on a $7500 system is a reduction of ~$60 per month. That’s a *significant* bill reduction for anyone.

The pricing diff is negligible at this point.

Yes I’m sure.

Some things use more power but refrigerator and AC units are significantly more efficient than a decade or 2 ago and those are significant savings.

The problem is the ‘middle’ ground is much farther than we are. We’re just seeing the tip of the climate disaster coming, it’s going to get much much worse.

Company store is out of tents, here’s an old box

Multi-tenant office buildings present yet more wrinkles, since the AC likely needs to run all 5 days as you won’t have every tenant taking the same day off in all likelihood.

One downside I see here is it further advantages the white collar job at the expense of many blue collar.

We *have* to get off fossil fuels, basically yesterday.

The problem is trying to do an ‘in place’ substitution. Individual long haul trucks are always going to be wildly inefficient.