The REAL TRUTH about Electric Vehicles. EV Truth!
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2024
- We made this video to set the record straight on EVs (Electric Cars and Trucks). Many people online are presenting mis-information on these vehicles and we wanted to get the truth out, from car/truck guys. Like you all, we have Gas and Diesel Trucks, UTV's, and a desert race truck. We also have 2 mustang Mach E's. Lets set the record straight and stop this bad info.
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Fast and quick are two different things. I have a standing challenge: I'll pay any EV owner $1000 if they can beat my clapped out 2013 Mustang 5.0 in a race from Phoenix to El Paso and back. Just to sweeten the pot, I'll put the Mustang on a trailer and we'll tow it behind our 2016 1 ton Duramax.
How is this relevant to the discussion? I could say we will bring our trophy truck out and see how your 5.0 does in the desert from vegas to reno. Has no bearing on the discussion and the use case.
@@WildPowerSports Happy I could help.
So when the temperature drops to -5 or so, how long does it take for an EV to charge at a charging station as opposed to the time it takes an ICE vehicle to fill up its tank?
Around 30 minutes, but only if you are doing more than a few hundred miles a day. Most charge at their house where it is cheaper and they are asleep at the time. In those cases they save a lot of time and money by never stopping at a gas station.
Tesla EV precondition the battery prior to arriving at a charging station so it warm and able to take charge at the normal rate no matter what the ambient temperature is.
The thing is, this doesnt matter to most. You charge at home while you sleep or at work. If your only way to charge is a charging station, not sure we would recommend an EV.
Yeah they make sense for charging at home and driving around town. And for almost nothing else.
Not true. I drive my Tesla Model Y on long road trips often. I much prefer it to taking an ICE car. I can do the 1750 mile trip from Chicago to Phoenix in my Tesla with Autopilot with just one stopover at a hotel where I used to have to make two stopovers driving my ICEV, and I pay less to make the trip as well.
"Make sence for charging at home and driving around town". Which is 95% of the driving most of us do. Not sure of your point?
Makes sense if you own 4 or 5 different cars but if you can only afford to have one or two cars electric cars make no sense.
Depends. Right now, EVs are best around town, so if you have 2 cars and keep the EV for local driving its great, or if you only have one car and don't take it on trips very often.
If you where you live doesn't allow for a charger to be used, your only option is to get it charged at charging station. As far as them never needing maintenance go to the Tesla maintenance page, one of the maintenance items is cleaning and lubricating all brake calipers every 12 months or 12,500 mi for vehicles in cold weather regions. How much do you charge for that service? EV tires wear out quicker than their ICE counterpart. Eventually that battery is going to have to be replaced. There are really no significant advantages of owning an EV over and ICE. They are nice toys for big boys.
Brake calipers need to be lubricated once a year if you live in areas where they salt the road. It's the same with ICE cars. That service can be done by yourself or any auto shop for about an hour of labor cost. The high voltage battery normally have 8-10 year warranties. EV tires do not wear quicker, it depends on your right foot. It's same with high torque vehicles. There are plenty of advantages! For example, I charge for free at work. My round trip commute is 75 miles and I have saved so much money in fuel cost that 80% of my EV cost pays for itself. If you don't own an EV, you have no place talking about one. I've owned many ICE vehicles in my lifetime, and it only took owning 1 EV to convert me.
@@DOHCtor But you said they require NO MAINTENANCE. After 8-10 years are you going replace that battery or junk the car? How much does the insurance cost on that EV? Experience isn't the only teacher, you can learn by simple observations. It took me watching a few videos and reading up on EVs to convince me I will never own an EV, even if it was given to me.
We have owned 3 different EV's now, never any service. Never "Lubricated the brake calipers". Never any issues. If you live where you cant charge at home, best to not buy an EV. With the nissan leaf and other afordable (Although not as fun) EV's out there, they are available to all income ranges at this point.
Correct on battery replacement. But, if you make a spreadsheet of all the maintenance costs of a gas car over 10 years, the battery will cost less. Trust me, we made the spreadsheet.
It's not really misinformation. You said it yourself: EVs are viable as an around-town 2nd or 3rd vehicle for those who have the $$$ and inclination. They simply are NOT applicable to large segments of the driving public. But they are being marketed as direct replacements for the avg ICE driver, which they most definitely are not. I myself go to the mountains almost every weekend during the winter, it's 300-400 miles rt. Start with a fullish tank and I never have to worry about making it back, regardless of the weather/temps.
You can buy a brand new Tesla Model 3 today for $31,000, and there are loads of used Teslas that sell for $20K or less. Anyone who has a place to charge at home will save tons of money driving an EV. I own a Tesla Model Y and got rid of my ICE cars years ago. I'll never go back to having to fill up a tank with expensive gas, schedule oil changes, and so other maintenance. A 300 to 400 mile round trip is no problem in most cases. I take lots of road trips in my Tesla and have never had range anxiety.
You do a 300-400 mile trip every weekend? You have the $$$ it would seem to buy whatever vehicle you would like!
@WildPowerSports Exactly. I can choose to drive whatever I want. I've test-driven Teslas. No thanks. Exactly zero appeal to this hombre. Zero.
@MsAjax409 You must live where the temps are moderate and interstates are plentiful, hence the Tesla charging network? Still too slow "filling up" for me. I myself frequent places where cellphone service is not a given, and occasionally take 13-15 hour drives straight through averaging 70+ mph in both extreme hot and extreme cold. My normal time stopping for gas is about 10 min. I'm not retired. I have limited vaca. I'm not going to waste a cumulative hours waiting for charging. I also do most of my own maintenance. I actually enjoy it.
The problem isn’t whether EV or ICE is better, the problem is our corrupt politicians forcing you to choose EV while conspiring to eliminate gas vehicles.
Very True. Sad, but true.
Ask EV owners where electricity comes from, they will hesitate for five long seconds and say 'electricity?'. Then when you tell them most electricity comes from fossil fuels their eyebrows will go up and they will say 'ohhhhhh...'. It is at that point reality starts to sink in.
Not entirely true. It depends on where you drive. It may be true in West Virginia, but not Washington state. Half of Illinois's electricity is produce from nuclear. I charge my Tesla from solar panels on my roof. The grid is getting cleaner while gasoline isn't.
@@MsAjax409 Illinois is creating even bigger problems with their nuclear technology. It cost billions to start up, nuclear waste is deadly (and lasts seemingly forever) and when it fails - it fails in a lethal way. Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), the Three Mile Island accident (1979), and the SL-1 accident (1961) to name a few. And finally, because the state of our education system is at an all time low, the future graduates will be a bunch of dopes who won't have the raw cranial brainpower to manage this complex dangerous technology. We really need to put in place something our future generation can actually handle.
I didnt think we were talking about the enviorment...we are talking about the cars performance and costs. However, that said, much of the electric here in Colorado is wind.
The “mustang mach e” is a disgrace to the mustang name. Its no where close to a mustang, its an suv/crossover not a sports car or muscle car. Call it anything else and you’d have no issue from me on whatever name you went with. But they wanted to use the name to encourage faster adoption. Shitty marketing decision.
Hope you enjoy the accelerations being computer cancelled after 5 seconds of “WOT”. Last i checked the real mustangs didn’t do that.
Anyone with an apartment or street parking who can’t plug in to charge overnight is at the mercy of charging stations. And if you chance charging it inside your garage a battery failure can burn it down.
These are toys for rich people not the common man. They’re a solution to a problem we don’t have. ICE cars are superior for what I do and where I live and I’ll refine my own fuel for it before I switch to these half assed abominations.
Ford says Mustang is a brand, not a car. There will be other "Mustangs" in the future also. And trust us, once you drive a Mach E, you will agree...its worthy of the Mustang name.