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To: allendale

On the contrary: customers buying, and indicating intention to buy, EVs is rising fast. While certainly not for everyone in all circumstances, they do well in most common cases.

Why?
1) sufficient range - few drive over 200 miles daily, and 300-500 mi range vehicles are done for most longer trips. Few drivers cover >1000 miles in a day.
2) performance in most weather in most of the country is fine. Yes there are substantial extremes, but you have options.
3) for most, charging downtime is overnight - it’s fully powered by morning, daily. The time saved being “topped off” nightly (not having to be driven to a station _every_time_ power-up is needed) more than makes up for the occasional inconvenience.
4) resale value is increasing & stabilizing, as tech improves and longevity rapidly passes gas cars (~300 moving parts vs 5000).
5) while initial price excess gas alternatives, the savings in buying electricity instead of gas can pay for the vehicle - it’s practically free.

Most arguments against EVs are either outright obsolete or rapidly diminishing toward solved. Try to keep up.


31 posted on 06/09/2021 4:37:49 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: ctdonath2

Then why is the principal pusher of EVs the government?


34 posted on 06/09/2021 7:05:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ctdonath2

The batteries and the materials used in the are far worse thant gasoline for the environment.


36 posted on 06/09/2021 7:33:36 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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