• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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      1 hour ago

      Imagine having to drive to a station each time you need to fill up your tank instead of just plugging it at home and letting it charge while you sleep.

      I would not want to go back to a gas car.

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      14 hours ago

      This isn’t even true. I’ve noticed gas stations seemingly slow their pumps down to show you more ads on those little screens. I used to be able to mute them but that seems rarer and rarer. It often takes me upwards of 10 minutes or more to fill my 20 gallon tank.

      I would love to have an electric car I could charge to 80% in 10 min. Hell I’d love to have an electric car.

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      18 hours ago

      Depends on how busy the gas station is, it’s also much cheaper to charge an EV than pump a comparable amount of gas.

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        16 hours ago

        If you’re driving an EV, you don’t care about money. A cheap man drives an old Toyota hybrid, not an EV.

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          The cheapest car to drive will almost always be the one you already have. When you need a new car, the used market is actually doing pretty decent. Used EVs can be about as cheap as a basic ICE vehicle now. 1 30-second google search and I found a used EV with 61k miles for $6k, and another for $4k.

          Long-term, EVs can also be much cheaper to run, so it actually makes financial sense to make your next vehicle an EV.

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            And we’re getting more and more data saying that the expectations for battery life were pretty far off. They lasting far longer.

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      19 hours ago

      In Malaysia, we have cheaper gas than neighbouring Singapore. You should watch the Singaporeans cross the border and all the shenanigans they use to coax/ jimmy/ jank/ whatever their tank to take the last 0.5%. Takes much longer than 10 mins. There’s probably videos on this also.