No garage here; EV parked in the open for 3.5 years now, in rain, Sun, hot, cold, snow. No charging issues.
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People in bougie suburbs are the ones driving stupid long commutes. The whole thing is absurd and comes down to Americans being greedy weirdos who demand giant houses, 4 kids and are also strangly fine with driving an hour each way for work.
3.5 year EV owner here; no issues with home charging or remembering to plug in, especially as we plug in each time we arrive home.
But your cars are also disproportionately belching soot/CO2, which is bad. Even a sweet-ass bluetech Benz. It only works if not too many people do it.
I have “garage cleaning anxiety” that keeps me from an EV.
Then you need a giant Qi inductive charging mat for the floor of the garage
I only charge in public when making road trips, which is maybe 2-3 times a year. With a gas car, I usually stretch my legs for 20-30 min anyways, so charging is really no big deal.
Honestly, if I had a gasoline hose in my house that could trickle gas into my tank and have it full by morning, I can’t imagine how many times a year I’d have to visit a gas station. Hell, it could be years between visits, even!
yea they could be, but not nearly as expensive as installing an underground storage tank for fuel at your home...
One can hardly hold the charging networks responsible for you not remembering to plug your own car in. You plug your phone in at home right?
You mean car ownership and maintenance is expensive?!?!?!??!?!!
You’re right, until the new normal is different. How many times have you wished in the middle of a long road trip that you could actually sit and eat decent food in a clean, upbeat environment instead of just gassing up and grabbing a bag of chips and getting the F out as soon as possible...maybe this is where the old…
Most EV drivers rarely go out of their way to charge their cars. I’ve supercharged a single digit number of times since buying my Model 3, the rest of the time I just charge when I’m at work and that one charge is enough for the whole week. I could probably go longer than that without charging if I wanted to but I…
House chargers are a small fraction of the price of the car, even if you have a cheap car. I go on road trips twice a year. I can stand to lose 30 minutes on an occasional road trip if it means that I get to save 10 minutes per week every week of the year by not having to go to gas stations.
On our 2.5 years of ownership we have used public charging stations, maybe 4 times. Every time we were out and about, so it is not as if we were just waiting for the car to charge.
It’s really not that hard. Do you forget to fill up with gas?
It’s a simple habit to get in to. I’ve had EVs for six years now, never forgot to plug it in.
Yes but this is counterbalanced by the fact that you leave your house every morning with a full “tank”.
Yeah I was in a similar situation once... in Mario Kart 8. I got the ink-splat on Rainbow Road. Consequences maybe not quite as high, but it was a real nail-biter for me.
A lot of ingenuity and effort to make them demonstrably worse than stock. It’s sort of like letting a teenager modify their car.