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Oil changes are cheap and don’t happen very often. Gas is expensive but at least it is readily available and fast. EV chargers are common, but not in all the places where gas stations are and so sometimes not where you need one. No EV yet charges as fast as I can fill a tank of petro. If you never go on road trips you may not care, but since I do road trips this matters to me.
Yes plugging my EV in every time I get home saves me from visiting the petro station often. (I have a plug in hybrid)
Our second car is a plug-in but l hybrid for road trips. Agree, that’s a useful case for ICE, but that car costs us far more to drive than our EV.
90% of personal driving (I’m ballpark guessing) is in town and can be handled by charging an EV overnight every few days by most drivers - doesn’t even have to be nightly.
At least in the US there are not good options though. Since a minivan is the right vehcile for our family we get a new id.buzz, or for half the price a used pacifica (which we were lucky to find at all). Everything else is ICE. I don’t know how anyone can afford a new car - I make more than the average person and the payments on the used minivan are already hard.
Oil changes are cheap and don’t happen very often. Gas is expensive but at least it is readily available and fast. EV chargers are common, but not in all the places where gas stations are and so sometimes not where you need one. No EV yet charges as fast as I can fill a tank of petro. If you never go on road trips you may not care, but since I do road trips this matters to me.
Yes plugging my EV in every time I get home saves me from visiting the petro station often. (I have a plug in hybrid)
Our second car is a plug-in but l hybrid for road trips. Agree, that’s a useful case for ICE, but that car costs us far more to drive than our EV.
90% of personal driving (I’m ballpark guessing) is in town and can be handled by charging an EV overnight every few days by most drivers - doesn’t even have to be nightly.
At least in the US there are not good options though. Since a minivan is the right vehcile for our family we get a new id.buzz, or for half the price a used pacifica (which we were lucky to find at all). Everything else is ICE. I don’t know how anyone can afford a new car - I make more than the average person and the payments on the used minivan are already hard.