I made gas prices largely obsolete

Yeah with a DC mig welder. Not AC with ultra high frequency superimposed arc stabilization.

 

Whats sad is my Nissan leaf can easily haul twice that much plywood/osb, no problem.

 

But supposedly electric vehicle are going to "take over".

 

EVs will "take over" when the Federal gov't is ballsy enough to ban alternatives. Coming soon, I'd wager.

 

That's the only way to get electric vehicle adoption above a third. In the united states EVs will probably live around 10% they're a great second car.
The main things that are going to kill EVs are mind blowing depreciation and sky high insurance rates.

 

Until the grid is upgraded enough to support EVs, they will remain in the minority. Of course, the short range, long recharge times and lack of load carrying capacity all come into play, not to mention the issues OP4 listed above.

 

If every passenger vehicle became an EV over night we would need about 20% more electricity. If nearly all the charging happened at night, as long as it wasn't a really cold night.....

 

When you start with the assumption that the Left wants to get rid of fossil fuels, it starts to make sense. They don’t care if it won’t work. The goal is to get rid of fossil fuels, not to let people get from point A to point B. The goal is not to let commerce flow. The goal is to shut it all down.

 

Yeah pretty much communism.

 

I bought both my EVs used, let someone else eat the depreciation I figured. And insurance was barely higher than my ICE machines, so I am curious how all the sky high insurance rates show up for some. 250K miles on the 2 of them, no notable problems, sold the one with more miles on it a week ago for maybe 45% of what I paid for it in 2015, with 180k miles on it. I kept the second one, it is a perfect second car and has far fewer miles than the other.

 

The insurance companies are junking almost new vehicles with minor damage because no one wants to work on electrics.

 

If asked "why won't you buy an electric vehicle" I found the best answer:
Say something to the effect of "all of the same reasons Tesla still uses gasoline powered service vans".
Electric vehicle simps can't handle that shit.

 

This is why I'll only drive vehicles that are dumb, aren't connected and don't have the ability to store or send videos.