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post 1661428003 05-16-2022, 08:45 PM
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Thoughts on Electric Cars?

With the gas prices the way they are, Im seriously considering an electric car these days. RN I drive thisand I do like the car, but I pay about $800 monthly on gas, plus $250 financing. So buying an electric car for $60k actually seems cheaper at this point. Thing is in the past year I put like 40k miles on my car, and I have no idea how an electric car would hold up reliability wise if I drive this much every year for 5 yrs. I kinda like this one. the suvs seem kinda ****gy. What does misc think?
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post 1661428043 05-16-2022, 08:47 PM
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Great if you're a soycuck or some modern day yuppie. Sucky if you don't want to start growing a vagina and drinking soy.
post 1661428083 05-16-2022, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
Great if you're a soycuck or some modern day yuppie. Sucky if you don't want to start growing a vagina and drinking soy.
there is truth in what you are saying, but over 1k per month for a car just for gas and payments seems a bit too much
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post 1661428093 05-16-2022, 08:49 PM
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absolute soyboy puss chit.

If it aint a truck you're a cuck
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post 1661428133 05-16-2022, 08:49 PM
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EV's don't save you money. Initial cost, and then when they do break it's very expensive, and batteries deteriorate and are very expensive to replace. You know how when you get a new phone the battery last forever but after a year or two you've got to keep it on the charger or it's low battery before you know it? Yeah well imagine that happening with your car.

Be wary of Tesla Fanbois. Absolute misinformation.
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Originally Posted By Talason⏩
absolute soyboy puss chit.

If it aint a truck you're a cuck
electric f150?
how about this?
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post 1661428313 05-16-2022, 08:54 PM
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I own TSLA and I am advising you not to go electric dude. Huge upfront costs that if you finance instead of pay cash it hurts even more. And consider a 100 kWh battery will cost $33 to charge (where I live) at your house so it is by no means free like everyone thinks. Plus your insurance will probably double (not many people know this) because they are so expensive to repair.

All electric cars do is move emissions from the car to the power plant.
post 1661428923 05-16-2022, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted By expert701⏩
electric f150?
how about this?
those new BMW Beaver grills look like absolute chit. BMW went full retard.
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Until they can be charged as quickly and conveniently as an internal combustion engine car, I'm not interested. They'd have to be really cheap too. I currently have two small cars, one which gets close to 40 mpg, so fuel cost isn't an issue. I also have no car payment. There's no way any electric car would be cost effective for me now.
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We are in the era where hybrid cars make the most sense.

We need some more decades I think before electric vehicles can compete with a hybrid.

If you're rich and want one car for around town, and the other for everything else, then might as well get an electric for the local driving.
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Originally Posted By coast2coastam⏩
Until they can be charged as quickly and conveniently as an internal combustion engine car, I'm not interested. They'd have to be really cheap too. I currently have two small cars, one which gets close to 40 mpg, so fuel cost isn't an issue. I also have no car payment. There's no way any electric car would be cost effective for me now.
After some more research, the fact that charging it costs like 30-40$ is a dealbreaker for me,especially since the range is like half of a gas car. theyre basically status symbols for the soys it seems
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Originally Posted By Visel⏩
We are in the era where hybrid cars make the most sense.

We need some more decades I think before electric vehicles can compete with a hybrid.

If you're rich and want one car for around town, and the other for everything else, then might as well get an electric for the local driving.
Ive heard tat hybrids make sense in city driving, but highway is kinda chit, and I drive 90% on highways
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Originally Posted By expert701⏩
After some more research, the fact that charging it costs like 30-40$ is a dealbreaker for me,especially since the range is like half of a gas car. theyre basically status symbols for the soys it seems
They're meme machines
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Originally Posted By blissful88⏩
They're meme machines
is that a good thing ?
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post 1661430473 05-16-2022, 09:57 PM
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Its the future regardless of gas prices. Its better technology in every way other than the “feel”.

In the near future, cars with combustion engines will be like mechanical watches… not practical and not used by anyone who isnt an enthusiast of the hobby.

I say this as a person with a v8 truck and a v6 biturbo merc.
post 1661430553 05-16-2022, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted By exxtracool⏩
Its the future regardless of gas prices. Its better technology in every way other than the “feel”.

In the near future, cars with combustion engines will be like mechanical watches… not practical and not used by anyone who isnt an enthusiast of the hobby.

I say this as a person with a v8 truck and a v6 biturbo merc.
next lockdown theyre just gonna disable all the evs tho . u heard it here m8
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Originally Posted By expert701⏩
next lockdown theyre just gonna disable all the evs tho . u heard it here m8
The govt could stop you from doing anything they want if you let them.

How you gonna drive that gas car when the govt shuts down oil production and import?


At least you can generate electricity. Good luck digging up crude oil and refining it.
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Originally Posted By exxtracool⏩
The govt could stop you from doing anything they want if you let them.

How you gonna drive that gas car when the govt shuts down oil production and import?


At least you can generate electricity. Good luck digging up crude oil and refining it.
cant do much about the software tho. At least u can stock up on gas. Plus no one gon cancel them delivery trucks (gas powered)
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EVs are getting there, starting to see some nicer looking ones like i4, F-150 electric and Hummer EV. The tech still has a ways to go, Tesla is still the driving force behind it and they're promising I think 500mi on their Cybertruck (probably about 400 real world).

Give it a good decade and they'll be the best choice in just about all respects.
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Soulless machines that give me dystopian future vibes.
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If you want one buy one? I don't like electric vehicles outside of the Hummer and if Mercedes was to come out with a good one.

Give me a big V8 anyday
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178⏩
EV's don't save you money. Initial cost, and then when they do break it's very expensive, and batteries deteriorate and are very expensive to replace. You know how when you get a new phone the battery last forever but after a year or two you've got to keep it on the charger or it's low battery before you know it? Yeah well imagine that happening with your car.

Be wary of Tesla Fanbois. Absolute misinformation.
You'll quite literally.posting misinformation.

Battery Deg is nothing like on a phone, and you're retarded if you think they are anything like similar.

I'm working on batteries for EVs right now, and were cycling them constantly and seeing no more than 2+3% Deg a year.
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Originally Posted By expert701⏩
is that a good thing ?
No
Originally Posted By CBRIT89⏩
You'll quite literally.posting misinformation.

Battery Deg is nothing like on a phone, and you're retarded if you think they are anything like similar.

I'm working on batteries for EVs right now, and were cycling them constantly and seeing no more than 2+3% Deg a year.
2% degradation from a Lithium battery pack, in what universe of physics? Marvel's Ironman?


You must think we're absolute retards to fall for that level of your buyer's remorse shilling

They last 5-7 years tops & that's not accounting for extreme weather changes basically everyone experiences
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I don’t understand how electric cars are the answer when chitholes like California can’t even make it through a summer without rolling blackouts

Surely adding the burden of a couple million electric cars won’t add any stress to that
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my 1 cent opinion is that electric cars will be the vast majority of vehicles on the road in no more than 20 years
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Originally Posted By TealCat⏩
my 1 cent opinion is that electric cars will be the vast majority of vehicles on the road in no more than 20 years
Wouldn't there be issues with minerals for batteries, recycling all of those components, and infrastructure?

Unless it's some dystopian scenario where they'll be reserved for the wealthiest in our society, and the rest of us will have to make do with riding our bikes and ride sharing when we're granted that privilege.
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pros:
performance, potentially
less pollution specifically where you live

cons:
congolese kids are digging cobalt with their bare hands right now for them
the battery manufacture and disposal is horrendous for the environment
doesn't break even with a petrol vehicle regarding even co2 (which, by the way, is an inert gas essential for life on earth) until an amount of miles after the battery has already died
if the battery cooks off, which has happened a bunch of times with teslas, it will burn down your house and pretty much can't be put out with water unless you use literally 50,000 gallons
the grid can't support many of them, and it keeps getting worse
the cost of electricity is heavily influenced in most areas by the cost of natural gas, which is spiking as well thanks to muh ukraine
you'll be viewed as a literal homosex

i could keep going, but did you even do the full math on that 60k purchase
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theyre idiotic and for idiots. esp teslas. I made a thread on it and everyone just cowered away like pussy.

I drive a prius cost of owning is extremely cheap and get benefits of electricity without burden cuz its hybrid. thus highway is engine so battery isn't overworked.

that said might buy a truck cuz prices will drop and someones gonna struggle pay gas and will downsize equals good deals.


btw; check out repair costs for tesla plus monopoly
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Electric motorcycle is where its at.
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Originally Posted By TealCat⏩
my 1 cent opinion is that electric cars will be the vast majority of vehicles on the road in no more than 20 years
Range is the biggest problem. Not sure how they will solve that
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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