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Only 1% of EV Drivers Would Go Back to a Gas Car* (cleantechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

More like 5% if plug-in hybrids count as "gas car". 95% satisfaction is still great though.

I've been daily driving EVs for over eight years. I wouldn't go back either, as long as I can charge it at home anyways. And I pay my own mortgage, so hopefully that remains the case.

Hell I've even taken my EV to race tracks. Charging in between runs is a hassle, sure, but the serenity on the track from no engine or exhaust noise removes a lot of anxiety, and I get to enjoy the sounds of all the other fun ICE cars that much more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I've been waiting for 3 things: An income that can afford a new car, EVs with 500+km of range (I make regular trips through regions with poor charging infrastructure, and experience winter), and for my current ICE car to kick the bucket.

The first two have come to pass. Just waiting on that last one.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Obviously because they don't understand that trips over 4 hours take an extra 10 minutes which will cause any real man to melt!

/every EV thread on the internet

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

Technology connections (yt channel) recently had a video where he modded an electric shop heater to be powered from his EV charger.

He had a little mini-rant about how the current state of charging reflects how policymakers have absolutely no idea what day-to-day ownership of an EV is like, and think everyone is DC fast charging everyday.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (6 children)

My parents live next door to me. Between us we have three vehicles: My father's new-ish sedan, an old sedan that was my grandmother's and my pickup truck.

At this point I would gladly replace the old sedan with a Nissan Leaf or some other electric car, because it NEVER goes beyond 20 miles from the house, almost always on grocery runs. There are weeks it isn't driven at all. Honestly we could do without it entirely, I drive it mostly to spare my truck the mileage.

This is against my father's religion. Every single thing has been a FIGHT with him. "Let's get the gas powered hedge trimmer." "It's heavier, we'd have to keep buying gas and oil for it, and it'll only ever start and run three times maximum. We'd put it in the shed over winter, the carburetor will fill up with adamantium and it'll never run again." "Let's get the gas one. The men with the knives told me they'd hurt my mom if I bought electric tools." "You're 65 years old and your mother is currently in an urn at Bethesda cemetery. Look, this one runs on the same batteries as our hand drills."

"Let's get the gas powered chainsaw." "Let's get the gas powered string trimmer." "Let's get a gas powered lawn mower." Kicked, screamed, bitched, moaned, collapsed the USD twice, sheepishly admitted the electric ones work better and are easier to start, "LET'S GET A GAS LEAF BLOWER." We own five rakes, dad. "DO WE NEED ANY MORE?"

He wouldn't accept an electric car unless it charged from a solar panel on its roof from empty to full charge in a third of a femptosecond. The man who will go on long, angry rants about not wanting to ever go anywhere ever again because there's only one toilet on the planet he can stand to shit in will say 'What if I want to drive to Honolulu?"

Every cunt-missing navel-fucking thing with that man. He'd have a gas powered hair dryer if they made one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fwiw, they do make (natural) gas powered clothes driers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite is a propane powered fridge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not powered, funny as that would be

Propane is actually a very good refrigerant if you find a way to ignore the whole "if I get a little too warm I fucking explode" part of it

Used to chill soda cans by dumping a little liquid propane on them when we had tanks to vent at work, takes like 5 seconds direct contact to freeze a can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No, there are absolutely propane POWERED refrigerators. Propane goes in, the fridge burns the propane, some goddamn troll physics happen and the inside of the box gets cold. It's called the absorption cycle and they're commonly found installed in RVs.

I've attempted to understand how this works; it has something to do with boiling ammonia out of water and then re-dissolving it. It's a refrigeration cycle with no moving parts that runs on a sufficiently hot source of heat. Some also have electric heaters for when you have abundant electricity to save propane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

My girlfriend's dad when I first met him rotated his 4wd tires by hand with the spare tire wrench and the little complementary tire jack. I gave him my old air tools (I don't use them anymore). Eventually got him into the Ryobi ecosystem for the rattle gun, leaf blower and line trimmer. He was adimint that any battery tools were just a gimmick.

You don't need the Milwaukee million dollar aircraft carrier starter motor gun, heck my second hand air tools were enough. But to go without battery tools nowadays is just making life deliberately harder.

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