Here's Why Electric Cars Don't Work
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I actually quite like electric cars. I think if you have the right lifestyle, they can work very well for you. However, too many people disregard just how annoying if not impossible to own for some people. Let's talk about that
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Your argument about company cars doesn't prove what you think it does. Anybody in a job would get an electric car through a company scheme rather than as a private buyer because the tax breaks are so good (they might still get one if there were no tax breaks but given that there are they would be foolish to not take them).
@@gareth2736 it proves my point exactly. They’re so impractical, annoying and overpriced that only people who get massive incentives purchase them.
I have had a VW id3 for just over 3 years having completed 32,000 miles. Never a problem of any sort. I do both long and short journeys and have never encountered a charging problem. Indeed there are now many more chargers and the car even tells you when and where to stop, automatically checking availability. Battery degradation is pretty close to zero. Servicing is much lower cost and every 2 years. The 'motor' has 90% fewer moving parts and the gearbox, well, there isn't one! So, a completely biased and baseless video.
where do you live?
This argument is obviously coming from someone who has never owned an electric car. I’ve taken my Tesla across the country multiple times and it’s awesome. Weekly driving even if I’m going a couple hours away from home zero issue at all and I never have to charge at Tesla superchargers. Cost about six dollars to fill it up at home and I have 90,000 miles on it after only about three years. Best car ever. Not practical on road trips? How about camp mode where I can sleep in my climate controlled car, even though it’s snowing outside and only use less than 10% of the battery doing so. try that in an SUV and most of the times you’ll wake up at 2 AM freezing. This guy has no idea what he’s talking about.
All the criticisms of ev's always come from people who don't own one. This is nothing new 😂
Not everyone has the time to wait 20 mins to an hour while their toy car charges up. I can simply fuel my car and be on my way, whilst you consume toxic service station food and your soy latte.
@@HowToSpec when I get home it takes less than 2 seconds to plug in my car. Then I wake up with a full charge. Not huffing gas fumes
@@sierraairehvac Petrol smells great.
@@sierraairehvacbro does not go any further than half the range from his house, wow, big shocker. Evs work for you good then, that's nice. Won't work the same for everyone.
Hybrids though, that's likely the better future, as much as people ree about ICE. It's simply so much better in energy density and refueling, it's incomparable, likely will remain forever aside from nuclear cars
Such backward thinking. Why stop there? Buy a horse and carriage. Many more fields for horses to fuel up than there are petrol stations.
Grow up
Was in San Francisco recently, seemed like one out three cars were Tesla’s.
When I went to America on holiday, it was the other way around for me. Every car I seen was a V8 SUV or a hellcat. Exactly what I expected and I loved it
kewl
In its current state it is better then a petrol car for 80% of people (A lot of that 20% is for long range pick up trucks) but the biggest issue for most people is price not value. A model 3 is very well priced BUT you can't get someone who needs a 20k usd car a 40k usd car. This has mostly been solved with second hand Tesla's being in the 20k range but since people haven't driven an ev before and poor people don't like risks... they're scared of a battery lasting "one" year and dying lol.
Even though that is obviously false... they are super risk adverse.
It makes sense to be risk averse, when for the majority of people the car is the 2nd most expensive thing you buy in your lifetime.
We do not need govts forcing us or tempting us to buy one thing over another. Live and let live.
EVs work in the countryside without issues. We have EV chargers here, and commutes are small. Also, you can charge in your garage, and plenty of houses here have their own garage.
People drive them as their own vehicles, yes.
With that being said, the lack of a manual gearbox and a proper clutch make EVs boring to me. I wouldn't want one just for that reason.
People having good experiences with EVs are the minority
@@HowToSpec I see plenty of people driving their EVs without issues, for better or for worse.
EV Cars COULD work if every and I mean EVERY country has charging stations, and more importantly, SPORTS CARS THAT WE'RE GAS DON'T NEED TO BE TURNED INTO A LARGE RC CAR, since it literally makes the sales WORSE than the previous Gas model, an example of this is the new 2025 Dodge Charger EV ver. That EV model will NOT sell as much as the Six Pack. Which will Unfortunately lead to it's downfall as a Charger.
I’m in England and we head up to skye often (~500 miles). An EV is fine for us as we have a small dog and family who need a break every two hours anyway so around 50% of the battery. I’m not going to pretend they’ll work for everyone though. Especially in the states where the network is really poor.
Other EV's suck, but Teslas supercharger network is perfect. Definitely depends on the ev. I wouldn't touch other ev's with a 10 foot pole if they don't have access to the supercharger network.
@@mousegw2415 in the uk at least about 90% of the Tesla network is open to anyone if they download the app. So it doesn’t actually matter anymore thankfully 😁
Great example of critical thinking here.
I cannot stand when people refuse to see both sides.
The EV fanboys cannot comprehend the idea that some people do indeed need or just prefer a diesel truck
the ICE car fanboys cannot understand that all some people need or prefer is an electric fiat 500 to get from the office and back.
It’s partly the Govts fault for having a blanket approach to fuelling personal transport. EV or nothing, which is plainly stupid. And not to mention the out of touch EV car channels who refuse to acknowledge the faults with the EV car.
There is never only 1 answer to something as subjective as transport.
Thanks for watching!
got a Model 3 & S for years now , never had an big issue 🤷🏻♂️
The fact of the matter about the incentives part, and how it is needed to people to buy it. Is also not considering the fact, that telling a 50 year old who has had diesel his whole life, yet never used the diesel to it's potential and could easily live with an electric car. To move over to something brand new. With maybe new issues, or routines. Scares away a lot of customers.
But it also true that electric car market is behind the normal fuel driven cars. Because batteries. Over the past century. Improvements and new foundations have been made for fuel driven cars have been made. Down to the bore size of the cylinder and the tiniest details.
Only in recent decades, has the battery technology seen huge improvements. And maybe one day, like when cars went from carbureted to fuel injected. We will see such an improvement in batteries. Maybe solid state batteries? Maybe something else.
The idea of the video is there... There is just so much more to think about lul.
Yelo
So much crap spoken by someone who clearly does not know about EVs. I live in a small hilltop village 22 km from my office. My car can drive to work using 2km of range as it is more downhill and 14% coming home. I recharge the car overnight, typically every third day) on free renewable electricity in the same fashion that you put your phone on charge. I can drive 400km in one trip and (be honest with yourself) can you bladder last more than 4 hours between stops? If I have a lunch, when charge is down to 20%, it is recharged to 80% or fully for the afternoon drive before dessert is served. How often does the average person drive more than 100km in a day? Not often. Polluter cars are just a bad thing. Only those in the pockets of the oil industry and the 'less well educated' support them.
I support ICE cars because they have a soul, they are not simply an appliance like an electric car. Comparing an EV to ICE is like comparing a BBQ to a ready-made microwaved meal. The difference is vast in terms of general pleasure.
Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everyone. Its impractical for most in the UK as they're too expensive, and barely anyone has a driveway to themselves as most of us live in semi-detached or terraced homes, unless you're wealthy. So we cannot have our own home charger. Therefore electric cars do not work.
Also, me driving my small 1L hatchback has absolutely no impact on the scam that is global warming. Even if i were to drive a V8 ford mustang, eat a carnivore diet, and go on 20 holidays a year there would be slim to no impact on the enviroment.
The uk only contributes 2% to global carbon dioxide output. Why should i have to eat bugs and own nothing for the sake of other countries? The logic is backwards.
@@HowToSpecyour video seamed normal and I enjoyed it but wtf is this comment 💀
@@raresoana672 it’s based
where r u bro, u deleted ur discord
good video btw
@@LemiTheRedPanda I just don’t wanna use discord anymore that’s all :)
And thank you!
@@HowToSpec i was gonna ask for your discord because i have content , how about reddit?