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nah. electric is and always was a political fantasy. Perhaps its day will come, electric cars are here to stay and will find their niche, but the car manufacturers are reluctantly admitting that so is ICE. Electric cars can't compete on the figures, electricity is expensive, at service stations it's exorbitant. The electricity infrastructure is woefully inadequete to handle the large numbers needed. Not to mention enviromental benefits are not that huge either.


> Electric cars can't compete on the figures

My EV costs 1/4 pence per mile in fuel compared to my diesel - money saved.

I charge at home meaning I no longer have to visit a petrol station once a week - time saved.

It’s faster than my diesel. It preheats automatically so more time saved scraping ice off my windows every winter.

The national grid in the UK is actually running lower demand than it did 20 years ago due to efficiency improvements, and nighttime charging controlled by my power company means they can balance it as they need - so infrastructure is fine.

The environmental benefits mean that my car was break-even on carbon emissions after roughly 15k miles.

Seems like it competes on figures just fine.


This is mind bogglingly delusional while people are staring at spiking oil prices... and even when oil prices were at record lows it cost 5x to fill up my wife's ICE car as it did to charge my EV.




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