Stats come from Triple A, fine if it's 12,000 that's around 32-33 miles per day. It's not a solution for everyone, but it's no 90%. The younger crowd will want these cars and they are coming. I see around 7 per day here in A2, we even have charging stations.
you would be amazed at the number of people especially in Eastern cities who have never driven and don't have a DL. Regardless of the generation. Just one of many facets of why I love the electoral college- it protects people like us in flyover country from being ruled over by people who have no concept of how we live.
The youngsters will be all for them till they look at the sticker price, and the maintenance costs. the Toyota dork spent $1400 on a front brake job.
I don't think I could ever get a fully electric vehicle. I cannot imagine what the cost would be to get one repaired, and I do not trust their reliability. I wonder what the depreciation is on electrics vs their combustible counterparts.
What's coming, and by coming I mean already here- vehicle sharing. Communal cars. Much as I love cars and the freedom they provide; it does not make financial sense for a lot of urbanites (and even some suburbanites) to "own" a car. They just do not use/need them enough to justify the cost. Think of all the cars cluttering the sides of the streets in city neighborhoods that rarely move. I see it all over in Chicago. Using the car sharing services is pretty cheap per use and probably only going to get cheaper- and then when you factor in self-driving cars; the American road (and thereby the suto industry) is going to be vastly 25 years from now. Would I give up the freedom and convenience? No. But I can see how it's tempting from a financial and honestly even environmental standpoint.
It's interesting thought being electric cars have far less moving parts and our less complex. No transmissions in electric cars for one. ICE cars had more than 2,000 moving parts, EVs have about 20. It's like anything new, it will just take time.
That's because he has a hybrid, the cost of ownership will go down, far less moving parts. It will just take time.
Germ not to nitpick but if you believe that a car's maintenance costs go down as the vehicle ages you would be sadly mistaken.
No worries, it's just simple math. The cost of 20 parts vs 2000, but it won't go down until the cars are mast produce.
Simple math? are you serious? A car as it gets more miles on it more things break, does not matter electric or not.
I don't know about all that, electric is catching on here in Oklahoma of all places. They do have their place in urban areas, not like I am going to use an electric truck on the farm. As far as resale, my 2008 Tesla roadster I purchased for just under $50k and sold in 2016 for $48k. I'm not going to discuss what the price of a battery replacement cost but when we did the math it was about 38% of what I would have spent on fuel. I only ran out of juice once and I was purposely pushing it to see how far it would go. I honestly wish I hadn't sold it, nothing like a golf cart that will do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds.
Correct and 20 parts vs 2000, lol . Like I said simple math. Would you rather have a car with 20 parts or 2000 to maintain?
I'm not worried about moving parts. It's all the circuitry and electrical components. I'm sure onboard diagnostics would be good, but how available are parts and at what price. Heat and A/C would both be electric. I just couldn't put all my eggs in that basket. I can work on and fix 90% of the problems with my vehicles now. I'm guessing going electric would force me to have it serviced by authorized dealers not only due to the complexity of it all but also for warranty purposes. I'm sure they will still have the same 15k, 30k miles etc. service intervals, maybe use hours rather than miles.
Climate way better in the southern states, we test drove a few on Saturday for the wife. I am pushing for EV, she wants 6.2L super charge RS Camaro convertible, which one do you think we get, lol
Not to mention rustbelt states. Think road salt and chemicals are bad on metal, wait until it starts finding its way into connections and components.
I'll ask my buddy tonight at basketball he has a Tesla about the maintenance schedule. A new IOC has a pile of electronics in it also now, some how we drive them here in MI.
