Are you actually ready to buy an Electric Vehicle?

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by Robert, Mar 17, 2021.

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Electric vehicle in your future?

  1. I now have one.

    8.6%
  2. I will get one this year.

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    0.0%
  3. I see one in my future.

    30.0%
  4. I will stick to fuel.

    55.7%
  5. I will keep my fuel car plus purchase an EV.

    4.3%
  6. I will eliminate my fuel car and only use the EV.

    1.4%
  1. Bob Newhart

    Bob Newhart Well-Known Member

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    Most modern electric car batteries are made to be charged fast and 120 Volts at 3 amperes is going to be one very long charge.

    If you're going to get a rechargeable car, I'd suggest getting a proper connection.
     
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    We have two cars. My two seater roadster is excellent for short trips, or medium trips by myself. Our high end SUV is our hauler and road trip car. We need both.
     
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    Thing is, most of us can afford to buy a electric card for daily us and gas powered one for the road trips. I want a vehicle that meets my needs, not one I need to alter them for. Do what you want.
     
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    Lets take your F-150.

    Superior in acceleration - no.
    Superior in handling - no.
    Superior in reliability - no.
    Superior in wasting time on maintenance - yes!
    Superior in making a lot of noise - yes!
    Superior in killing pedestrians - yes!
    Superior in killing people in ICE corolla - yes!
    Superior in tipping over - yes!

    Yes, I guess your vehicle is superior in every way that matters.

    But seriously, what do most people drive?

    Malibu. Altima, honda accord.

    But according to Polydectes these ICE cars are dog doo because they can't tow a house over 600 miles without refueling. In fact, I don't think any of them can legally tow at all.

    Polydectes says ICE cars suck.
     
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    Quite the bad faith argument.
     
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    Thank you!
     
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    How so?
     
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    Good for you!
     
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    F-150 is a specific vehicle purchased for specific purposes, and it does those quite well. It is absurd and dishonest to set it up as a standard for ICE vehicles in general.
     
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    Are you sure you aren't going to claim they are powered by fairy dust?

    Because you claim that your truck charges batteries without needing to use any energy to do so.
     
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    Hey, he was insisting on towing capacity and long range. Did you want to use an F-250 instead?
     
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    Not for everyone. He insisted on versatility.
     
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    So, why don't you name the vehicle everyone has to buy?
     
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    It's not one-size-fits-all.
     
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    I don't know how you twisted and mangled this out of what I stated so I'm not even going to try and dissect it. It's enough to say I didn't say this at all.

    If electric cars were so Superior why would people insist on buying fuel powered cars? Why is it so hard to sell something that should sell itself?
     
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    So you really don't understand burning fuel creates power and that happens within the frame of a vehicle that runs on fuel?

    Meaning I don't have to depend on power lines in electricity being delivered to me in a form I can use to charge the vehicle.

    I guess the only thing that's been holding the electric car back for $140 years has just been people who just for whatever reason don't want something that's so much better and so Superior it's fallen into obscurity for almost a century and a half.
     
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    They don't. Most just walk to the local dealership and buy whatever the dealer tells them to.
    EVs sell so well dealers aren't even needed to sell them. Even with people going nuts lying about them.
     
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    The diesel engine turns the crankshaft. The crankshaft pulley turns the serpentine belt which turns the DC generator, commonly called the alternator. What you don't seem to realize is that it takes energy to turn the alternator and the more electrical power the alternator creates, the more energy is used. Energy in this case is stored as diesel which gets used more quickly. Your truck doesn't bother to measure the fuel consumption accurately enough to for you to realize that charging your laptop is reducing your range just a little bit. And just like in an electric vehicle, you won't notice a change in range.
     
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    So there is a conspiracy of dealers
    That's why I see so very many of them lol?
     
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    The alternator runs at the same speed anytime the engine is running. It doesn't burn more fuel to charge things.

    Fuel powered vehicles don't have range.
     
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    A Automobile Company (1910–1913)
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    Abeln-Zehr (1911–1912)
    Apex Motor Car Company (1920–1922)
    Acme Motor Car Company (1903–1911)
    Adams Company (1905–1912)
    Anger Engineering Company (1913–1915)
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    Ajax Motors Co. (1914–1915)
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    All-Steel Motor Car Co. (1915–1916)
    Allen Motor Company (1913–1922)
    Allen Iron & Steel Company (1913–1914)
    Alpena Motor Company (1910–1914)
    Alter Motor Car Company (1914–1917)
    Alcoa (1920–1922)
    Amalgamated Machinery Corp (1917–1919)
    Ambassador (1921–1925)
    American Automobile Manufacturing Company (1911–1912)
    American Automobile and Power Company(1904–1905)
    American Automobile Co. (1899–1901)
    American Cyclecar Co. (1914)
    American Austin (1929–1941)
    American Beauty (1918–1920)
    American Locomotive Automobile Company (1908–1913)
    American Mercedes (1904–1907)
    American Motor Car Company (1906–1914)
    American Motor Carriage Co. (1902–1904)

    That's just halfway through the A's

    How long was your list again? ICE must suck.
     
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