Eh, propaganda isn’t about truth or fiction, it’s about manipulating media to push a narrative.

One of the needs was not driving a huge ass truck for the 99% of trips where a smaller, more efficient car works so much better.

I can’t see, you can’t see, all that matter is, can the fuckin horse see!

Yeah, that’s the most needed /s on the internet right there.

I will if you restore the comment you deleted first. Let’s have clear and honest communication, or none at all.

You know… If you consistently espouse and vehemently defend the same talking points that I’ve been hearing from Republicans for the last my-whole-life, I think it is fair to call that you a Republican. You might self-identify as something different, the same way North Korea identifies as a democracy, but that just changes the label, not the ideology.

https://www.newsweek.com/maketheir-countries-great-again-trump-tells-migrants-1137652

Did you try reading the comment that I initially replied to? I don’t think the context can be any more clear. Let me know if you need me to put it all in one post for you with detailed explanations, but I really don’t think that is necessary.

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This is exactly the sentiment of Republicans here when migrants come to the US to seek a better life.

Congrats on not being better than them, but just being somewhere else.

I never make special trips for petrol, nor do I ever have to wait to get on a pump.

Calling bullshit on this. I drove a gas powered car for 16 years. Unless you started driving earlier this year, you’ve definitely done both of those things at this point.

Wow… Sounds like one brand of cars known for having QC problems has QC problems.

Sure, a couple of minutes every week or so. Do you know how long it takes you to plug in and unplug an EV in every night? Literally less than 4 seconds. No special trips, no waiting for a pump, no authorizing with your card, no waiting for the actual fuel to go in the tank.

As for my longer trip, it only wastes 30 minutes if you do nothing with that time. I get lunch, or take a piss, or stretch my legs for a bit, or check out a local shop. When I do EV trips with non-EV drivers, they’re always amazed at how much of a non-hassle most charging experiences are.

My partner and I prefer to use the EV for some of our longer trips (2+ hours) because of it’s comfort features, “fuel” economy, quietness, and how it doesn’t stink like a gas car does. Charging stops are a non-issue, a surprising amount of places have destination chargers at them or nearby. Just plug the car in, enter payment, and go do whatever you were going to do that day, and have a “full tank” when you get back. The only people I hear complain about how awful it is to make a charging stop, are people who have never had do one.

My electricity is $0.09/kwh, or about $0.15/kwh when you factor in the bullshit fees AEP slaps on…

I also just looked up the average residential cost of electricity…

Just did the math on my whole bill. My actual price per kWh is $0.19, so more than 18, waaaaay less than 24, I also pay extra for 100% green power generation and I live in an area that is known for its electric utility corruption.

My hurdle to adopting electric is their so goddamned expensive that they can’t outweigh oil, gas, and service costs yet.

Yeah, that is the real issue with EVs, and probably the only complaint I’ve seen in all these comments that is valid.

It shocks people when I tell them this, but I did NOT buy an EV to save money. In most situations, buying a new (to you) car will cost you more than fixing the old car many times over. So I’m not shocked that I’m paying more for the EV. I’m more shocked that with the insane cost of gas lately, my EV is getting close to breaking even on monthly driving cost compared to my partner’s civic.

I think it’s funny that the complaint people bring up in these kinds of threads; that EVs aren’t that “green”, that they are unreliable, that charging is inconvenient, or that they aren’t practical… is completely wrong, and people who have EVs love them because they are exactly the opposite of that.

Average residential electric cost is $0.18/kwh, and the average new car fuel economy is 29mpg combined then yes, if you inflate the cost of electricity by 25% and reduce the fuel cost of the car by 17% then the ICE car is nearly as cost effective as an EV.

Your EV charges at home while you are sleeping. I spend less time “refueling” my EV than I spent putting gas in my hybrid, even including the occasional fast charging stops.

You can already drive cross country in almost any EV. There are more charging stations in my area than there are gas station.

Mechanically, EVs are very simple. Cost and “complexity” (app, touchscreens, etc) are rampant in ICE cars today as well, so buying one of those won’t really make a difference there either.

It weighs like 9lbs. Literally the most stable and planted laptop I’ve had since 3rd grade.

Pretty much every thing about it.

It’s a weird maneuver. People get into the passing lane to pass. If you get into the passing lane and hit the brakes, you are just asking to confuse the people behind you.

It sends confusing information to the people behind you. If I see the car ahead of me hop out of lane while clearly not in a passing situation, it’s usually because there is something hazardous in the road, and I need to dodge it as well, I’d be moving out of lane pretty much the exact moment you started slamming your brakes.

You have less visibility behind you than you do in front, making the maneuver much more dangerous. You might be popping out of lane to do your “Reverse pass” at the exact moment the person behind you, in or a person behind them decides to pass. You could also get stuck in a situation where you go for the “reverse pass” and realize that there is actually more cars behind you than you expected, and now you’re stuck going slow in the wrong lane with no way to get back over.

Cars can (almost) always brake faster than they can accelerate. If you need to get back into your original place because it is unsafe to complete the pass, it’s a lot easier to slow down to get back to it, than it is to accelerate to get back to it.

Don’t “reverse pass”. In fact, you really should pull your post or edit it to advise people not to do it. It’s illegal, it’s dangerous and it will get people hurt or killed. This is not a joke or a shit-post. I’m dead serious.

Computer is an old Lenovo P71. Has 4 slots with a maximum of 16GB per slot.