• kugmo@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    That’s a good thing, you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot and compared to EVs they are far more repairable.

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        5 months ago

        Interesting video, never knew about custom operating systems/firmware for EVs. Still an old dumb car is what I will use for the time being.

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      5 months ago

      you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot

      Really? Does it rain gas from the sky in your area?

      compared to EVs they are far more repairable.

      No they’re not.

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        5 months ago

        Yes you can re-fuel it, ever heard of a gas can? While you’re waiting for your EV to charge on the side of the road I’m already off driving. I should have specified old dumb cars are more repairable.

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          Yes you can re-fuel it, ever heard of a gas can?

          So people just leave full gas cans all over the place in your area?

          While you’re waiting for your EV to charge on the side of the road I’m already off driving.

          An EV charges nearly as quickly as you can fill up yours with gas…

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            As an owner of a plug-in hybrid this is patently incorrect. Most electric car owners have at most of 240 volt outlet (in the US), which while can fill your battery in a few hours from home, still falls short of the half hour round trip to gas station and back. Maybe with time our infrastructure and technology will get to that point though.

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      People are aguing about the reparability thing a lot. Current electric cars are less reparable, but that is by design. Car manufacturers are using electric as an excuse to make cars harder to repair. The reality is that electric motors and batteries are dead simple, they just add a bunch of techno bullshit to make them worse. Charging is bad right now, but that will improve with time, just like gas did when gas cars were new. I like cars, and hate seeing them being turned into what they are today, but there is nothing fundamentally different about electric cars to make them the piles of absolute garbage they are, (apart from battery technology not being great right now). 90% of the problems with electric cars are there by design, and I think everyone should buy a car that isn’t designed to suck, whether it’s gas, electric, steam, or fart powered.