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1) Cool strawman but no one said EVs should be the only cars you can buy right now with today's technology and infrastructure limitations
2) I struggle to see how even a 25% reduction in range on an EV with the typical 250-300 miles of range is legitimately problematic when the vast majority of people with EVs charge at home and drive dozens of miles per day at most.
It's easy to find edge cases, so congrats on picking at low hanging fruit.
Have you checked Chicago this past week? Tesla owners are lamenting their choice in EV ownership. But once the cold streak lapse, they'll be back to hugging trees again.
EVs only work well if you can charge at home, and you have some understanding of rage limitations - ie. when it is really cold out, plug in your car when you get home daily and set the charge percent to 100. I live in NY, and have not had any issues in the cold over the past few days getting to and from work using an Audi E tron. I would not touch an EV if I had a very long commute, or I did not have access to 240v charging on a daily basis.
A lot of if's. EV and hybrids have a place in our transportation needs, but at this point can not meet 100% of our needs. Maybe in 50 years??? Who knows but politicians like John Kerry need to stop talking out of their **** (and living differently in private).
At this point I'm beginning to think you all want Porsche to eliminate / seriously limit manual availability just so you can complain about how making sure my future kids and grandkids have a habitable planet is ruining your hobby. At what point do you say your hobby isn't cars anymore, replaced by b*tching on message boards?
A common misconception here. Our planet has never been more than barely habitable, rather it is highly hostile without the abundant portable energy we use to master the environment, eg. reducing climate-related deaths by 99% over the last 100 years. It is highly unlikely to become much less habitable due to the net effects of climate change, which we can easily master if we have energy to do so. If there are unexpected and sudden catastrophic effects of climate change, they will not be avoided by marginal medium-term decreases in greenhouse emissions, but by climate engineering.
Implications: a rational climate policy would be (1) deregulate nuclear power, (2) large prizes for all relevant technological breakthroughs, (3) a carbon tax.
Suggested reading: Fossil Future by Alex Epstein.
Suggested ignoring: anything from obviously dysfunctional institutions with strong inventives to mislead about climate change, such as governments and their propagandists.
Location: The way to hell is paved by good intentions “Wenn ich Purist höre...entsichere ich meinen Browning” "Myths are fuel for marketing (and nowadays for flippers too,,,)" time to time is not sufficient to be a saint, you must be also an Hero
Have you checked Chicago this past week? Tesla owners are lamenting their choice in EV ownership. But once the cold streak lapse, they'll be back to hugging trees again.
its because autopilot bugs while texting or they deficency in understanding how a car works
Location: The way to hell is paved by good intentions “Wenn ich Purist höre...entsichere ich meinen Browning” "Myths are fuel for marketing (and nowadays for flippers too,,,)" time to time is not sufficient to be a saint, you must be also an Hero
Have you checked Chicago this past week? Tesla owners are lamenting their choice in EV ownership. But once the cold streak lapse, they'll be back to hugging trees again.
01-18-2024, 07:11 PM
