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Do you have an electric car or plan to get one?

  • Yes

  • No

  • I plan to

  • Over my dead body


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....They are coming out with electric trucks. Tesla has the cybertruck, .....
Was that cybertruck concept a joke or are they actually going to launch it looking like that? Honestly, with the ridiculous styling and the unbreakable glass that broke...I just thought Elon was trolling the industry and perhaps had a real truck up his sleeve. That, or he is totally nuts.

I do think EVs are the wave of the future, I just don't think that weirdo will continue to be a part of it.
 
I’d love to own a Tesla. I’m just waiting for the price of ev’s to come down a little bit.

My wife and I make a really comfortable living but I can’t bring myself to drop 50k+ for a car. It’s in my dna to be cheap. My favorite vehicle is my Toyota Sequoia that is used for towing and a weekend family cruiser. It’s an 06 that I paid 10k for and runs and looks new.

In a few years I’m sure the used 3s will come down in price in addition to the bigger automakers releasing new more affordable models.
 
Speaking of being cheap, does anyone have experience with the Kia ev’s?

Theoretically, the Tesla 3 is about the same price however it seems when optioned, the 3s price goes up significantly. Plus the availability of 3s has been low (not sure if that’s still the case).
 
I agree, and fossil fuel isn't sustainable...But I digress beyond that.
fossil fuel is a made up name. They've been telling us for around 50yrs now that its non sustainable and we're gonna run out. funny how we've never run out! even with increased usage in those last 50 or so years.
 
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Regardless of beliefs, gas or diesel exhaust is stinky as @*#¥. And just because there seems to be an endless supply of fuel, does t mean we should use every last drop.
I do have a gas guzzler, although I don’t drive it every day. I bike and walk to do many errands. I have several grocery and a hardware store in walking/biking distance and will take the kids along to do those chores without taking a car. Many weekends, all our cars sit while we entertain the kids by going for long bike rides to parks etc.

Recently I had the kids with me in my suv and bc or pandemic we had to get lunch from a drive-thru. There were several cars and trucks in front of me and behind. The gas and diesel smell was so bad, I almost got sick.
 
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We have been an all-hybrid family since 2004. Bought a (9mo on wait list) Prius when the Gen3 model was first year and have had a civic hybrid (which was crap) replaced with a second Prius and now a Prius V. All the comments about low maintenance costs and fewer moving parts and easier on the brakes... all true. Wife still driving the original 2004 Prius with 250k miles. Mostly just tires and brakes and a suspension overhaul I performed at 200k miles and 13 years of age.

We will certainly get an electric of some kind for our next vehicle... either all-electric commuter or something like the Pacifica hybrid that has 30 some odd miles of all Electric and then an ICE for road trips.
 
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fossil fuel is a made up name. They've been telling us for around 50yrs now that its non sustainable and we're gonna run out. funny how we've never run out! even with increased usage in those last 50 or so years.
Why of course 'fossil fuel' is a made up name! The entire English language was made up, then we made up the word 'language' to describe it. Since fossil fuels are without question the remains of ancient plants an animals, 'fossil' seems like a reasonable descriptor to distinguish it from nuclear, solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, and other forms that energy can take. On the question of whether we will ever run out of fossil fuels, I can assure you that it is indeed a finite resource, evidenced by the simple fact that our entire planet itself is finite and therefore everything contained within it must also be finite. The question is, which will run out first? The fossil fuels, or a breathable atmosphere? I'll save you some googling, the earth's volume is about 770 times that of the volume of water and atmosphere combined.
 
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i just saw "flex fuel" selling for $7.79&9/10" i can make a gallon of flex fuel i can drink for less then that......

sorry if that's me going off on a tangent.....


edit: the hippies don't like nuclear, hydro, coal, anything....how are they going to charge their damn batteries.....and even if solar was viable they'd complain about taking light away from plants, or how grass doesn't get light.....lol
 
I dunno why the subject of alternative energy is controversial at all. You'd never see this kind of debate over gasoline vs. diesel, it just doesn't make sense.

I'd jump at the chance to own an EV. I'm a bit of a technophobe and the opposite of an early adopter, but a colleague of mine bought one last year and says he'll never go back. A former BMW driver, too. One of those "hoonigan"-types, whatever that means. He's even taken up the use of turn signals, it's pure madness.
 
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i just saw "flex fuel" selling for $7.79&9/10" i can make a gallon of flex fuel i can drink for less then that......
sorry if that's me going off on a tangent.....
edit: the hippies don't like nuclear, hydro, coal, anything....how are they going to charge their damn batteries.....and even if solar was viable they'd complain about taking light away from plants, or how grass doesn't get light.....lol

Agreed. Compared to electric vehicles, alternative liquid fuels for surface transport is a waste of time and energy. Electric car owners aren't necessarily hippies, that is mental residue from the last century. Now days most EV owners want to save money and the rest like to show off and go really fast. As for types of power used to make the electricity to fuel the car, it's not really a concern. Even in the unlikely event your car is running on all fossil electrons, you are still using a lot less dead dino per mile then the ICE car next to you.. and paying less money. Whats not to like about that? I have often wondered how much area of the earth would be required for 100% solar power. Here is the answer.

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i just saw "flex fuel" selling for $7.79&9/10" i can make a gallon of flex fuel i can drink for less then that......

sorry if that's me going off on a tangent.....


edit: the hippies don't like nuclear, hydro, coal, anything....how are they going to charge their damn batteries.....and even if solar was viable they'd complain about taking light away from plants, or how grass doesn't get light.....lol
It drives me nuts how all the greenies who moved to my state pushed to get rid of all the power plants. Nuclear was the wave of the future for them when I was growing up and now it's as sinful as coal. Now I'm basically being forced to spend $40k+ to build my own power plant on my roof. It really frosts my *******.
When I was a kid another big worry was about how we were destroying the world by cutting down all the trees. How many thousands of acres of forests are cut down in my state and replaced with solar panels? Paper bags were bad 30 years ago. Now we're back to paper bags. I wish these people were consistent.
 
Note that electricity costs will also rise, vehicle operating costs will increase. In theory, electric motors don't wear out at the same rate gasoline engines do, so cars will last longer, but manufacturers will find a way to make the vehicles obsolete long before they quit working.
 
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well...back on the topic of EV....

what they need to do for me is invent some sorta really big capacitor that charges instantly, so i don't have to wait a entire day to drive 100 miles.....
 
Note that electricity costs will also rise, vehicle operating costs will increase. In theory, electric motors don't wear out at the same rate gasoline engines do, so cars will last longer, but manufacturers will find a way to make the vehicles obsolete long before they quit working.
I remember in college one professor said if you can make something that breaks right after the warranty runs out you'll be a rich man. He was absolutely right.
 
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The batteries are an ecological disaster waiting to happen. Replacing them is not cheap.

My son found some great deals on Honda Civic hybrids that were five years old. Told him to research the batteries. Weren't such a good deal then.
That is absolutely true. That goes for a lot of material used in electronics as well.
 
I have read the heavy metal load from making solar panels is a big problem too.
You know, we shouldn't talk like this. It might take away the warm fuzzies the eco conscious people get for doing all the solar and green electronic stuff. Most probably don't realize our landfills are filled with that stuff. Chemicals and bad minerals leaching into the ground from it or that mountains are demolished mining the materials needed for a lot of batteries and stuff. Plus the slave labor used to do the dirty work in third world countries...
 
Think I'd consider an ev truck. Can't stomach the pricing currently...will wait til it's not a novelty, although I think by that point regulation will basically have made fossil fuel vehicles inaccessible price wise...
guess my next vehicle is a bicycle... 🙄
 
Think I'd consider an ev truck. Can't stomach the pricing currently...will wait til it's not a novelty, although I think by that point regulation will basically have made fossil fuel vehicles inaccessible price wise...
guess my next vehicle is a bicycle... 🙄
all new trucks are stomach turners.
I was poking around the ford website to price a new diesel F150. I got to around 59k when I decided to close that browsing tab. I’ll wait a few years or a decade and buy a used one.
 
all new trucks are stomach turners.
I was poking around the ford website to price a new diesel F150. I got to around 59k when I decided to close that browsing tab. I’ll wait a few years or a decade and buy a used one.
It's crazy how expensive trucks are getting. I basically have a f150 with a suv body and the prices are nuts. I paid $30k in '18 for a used '14 expy limited. I'd rather have kept my '01 expy, but the frame was rotted pretty bad. I think a new expy limited is like $70k+
 
Jesus H. on Toast, how many posts does another moderator have to delete before you stop posting political posts here? The next political post earns the poster a vacation from HBT. Not joking.
 
It seems like you shouldn't have to say this, but telling moderators to go **** themselves is unwise if you enjoy posting here LOL. People continue to amaze, everyday . . . .
 
If folks want to get back on topic . . . .

The limiting factor for us in purchasing an electric car is that we live in a multi-unit building in Chicago and our parking area has no charging. I'm not aware of any quick charging public options.
 
If folks want to get back on topic . . . .

The limiting factor for us in purchasing an electric car is that we live in a multi-unit building in Chicago and our parking area has no charging. I'm not aware of any quick charging public options.
Yeah, that would be a problem. I have known someone with a Volt at an apartment who ran an extension cord out the window. Which even then would be a hassle for nightly charging. In my situation, I pull into my garage every night, and the charger is right there. Being a creature of habit, I just plug in and don't even have to think about it. My daughter and her husband both have Volt's, and they don't have an outside outlet at their house. So they run an extension cord.

In my case, I use a standard 110v outlet, and it takes all night. We have another vehicle I can use for any extra trips. I basically use my Volt for work during the day, and home and park it, so I can just leave it charge.

There are apps for locating chargers. Maybe there is one in your area.
 
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