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I don't think I ever want an all electric car, how do you all feel about them?

I've had the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt, Tesla 3. I'm not a tree hugger. I just don't have my own oil well. I can make electricity through various means but I can't make gas or diesel.

Tech and infrastructure is not quite there for it to be your only vehicle. Although doable. Tough for apartment dwellers that don't have garages with 50amp service though.

The Leaf while a favorite to drive only had 90miles of range. That was an around town car. It covered like 90% of my trips.

The Volt was a jack of all trades it could go 60miles on electric only but had a gas generator that let you go an additional 360 miles. Great for cross country while being all electric for around town and work.

I finally went with the Tesla last. Tesla has charging infrastructure and experience building these cars. They have enough range to go most places. I never had drive train issues but their build quality is so so on finish (paint, interior panels...). If your an apartment dwellers with no high current outlets then this is the way to go.

I drive that car about 99% of the time.

I get home and plug it in like my cell phone. But in reality I can go about a week before needing to charge.

My other car is a 4x4 gas truck.

Diversification - gas, electric, bitcoin, gold, silver, lead, real-estate, monero, equities, and a tiny amount of fiat.

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cuban 2y ago

Understood, I think they can be useful. I think with my life they don't make a lot of sense.

I'm too far from work to use the leaf/volt and their ranges. Would rather a hybrid than a generator dependent car. TSLA I thought about but don't love how easy of an off switch it has and that it's all software. I would have to charge it every other day.

How do you feel about the battery chemical mining and can the world support an entire fleet of electric vehicles on these current batteries?

Reichard Könige 2y ago

Don't care one bit about the mining or any other item. Technology eventually mitigates these things like it did for the materials used in gas cars. But even with that you still have countries manually processing lead batteries without giving employees protective gear or caring about ground water. And as for electricity they need to build more hydrocarbon fueled and nuclear plants. Especially nuclear. They have people in poor nations suffering by pushing every stupid green and esg policy on them. Like I said I'm not a tree hugger. I'm libertarian and was in electronics and software for 32 years before taking early retirement.