Do Any Of You Own Electric Cars Or Are Realistically Thinking About Buying One In Your Next Vehicle Purchase?

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I'm still a ways from buying an electric car. I'm looking for a new truck but it will run on gas. I am considering a twin-turbo six cylinder as an alternative to an eight cylinder but I just don't have the confidence in electric cars yet. Where do you charge them? How much is the charging? How long does the charging take? If everyone had an electric car how would the power be supplied and how, when, and how much to upgrade the electrical grid? Maybe when everything works out when common sense prevails is when I get my first electric car.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

No

 

[assari]

I was thinking of buying an electric car when they start looking good.


The current ones are like toys!

 

[VillellaMcMeans]

I'm buying fully electric Volvo just so I never have to care about gas prices ever again...

 

[Pornfan99]

They aren't on my radar. Very few are appealing, styling-wise. The ones that are, are ~ $100,000 or more. I subscribe to both Car & Driver, and Motor Trend. Many times while they are testing EVs they run into charging stations that are either out of service; "start" to charge, but then stop; there are lines of cars queued up to charge and the wait expands exponentially.

Also: my electric bill is NOT cheap / low.. For a while now, the distribution charges are higher than the cost of the actual electricity!

Plus: I think to install a higher voltage charger in one's home runs several thousand dollars.

 

[tvstrip]

By the time I plan on buying my next car, you legally won't be able to buy a new gasoline powered vehicle.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

I did see an article about Pepsi being the first company to take delivery of Tesla's all electric semi tractors. God they're ugly. I know a Peterbilt isn't exactly aerodynamic, but they do look good. As far as electric pick ups go, the ones I've seen, don't really look like pick ups. If I do get another vehicle it won't be for awhile, my truck only has 70k on the odometer, and I really don't go anywhere these gays. I would look at a 6 cyl. 2x4 before I went electric.

 

[DrakeM]

Yes, when I wear down my current vehicle to scrap or total it.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

You Might want to look at this Dino. I forgot Ford has an electric truck, that looks like truck, so it stands to reason, Chevy will too. I don't know if you tow many trailers, but I know I have pulled a trailer or 2 for friends, without a towing package. I have a friend with an F150 ECO Boost 6 cyl., and it'll pull 12k lbs.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/truck-t-normal-truck-things-143000359.html

 

[Xombie3000]

Randomly watched this a few weeks ago. A little long but could be pretty informative

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

You might want to look at this Dino. I forgot Ford has an electric truck, that looks like truck, so it stands to reason, Chevy will too. I don't know if you tow many trailers, but I know I have pulled a trailer or 2 for friends, without a towing package. I have a friend with an F150 ECO Boost 6 cyl., and it'll pull 12k lbs.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/truck-t-normal-truck-things-143000359.html

I'm a city boy who doesn't pull trailers and consider driving on Sepulveda as going off-roading. I want a reliable, comfortable, and fast truck with a few bells and whistles as far as options. The electric F150 Lightning looks nice but the electric part makes it $25K more. I am considering the ECO Boost 6 cyl as that kicks out 400 horsepower which is the same as the 5.0 V8. I'd still rather have the 5.0. I don't drive a lot of miles and also cruise the Westside fairly calmly.

I'm also tempted to get a Chevy Silverado ZR2 with a 6.2 Liter V8. If gas prices go the way Sacramento really wants them I may be planting flowers in my new 4x4.

 

[tvstrip]

In some countries, you have as little as 7 years to buy a new gasoline (ICE) car. IMO you realistically have less time, since you won't want to buy a car in the last years leading up to the ban, as demand is likely going to skyrocket. Manufacturers are going to cut back on production leading up to the ban, because they don't want to be stuck with new cars they legally can't sell, and those who don't want non-ICE vehicles will eat up the remaining supply.

That said you can still buy used ICE vehicles; but again, demand will be super high as there will be a finite supply, and I would bet that prices are going to be so high it will be cheaper to buy an equivalent non-ICE vehicle.

This is from just last year; there are probably more additions now.
https://www.coltura.org/world-gasoline-phaseouts

A gasoline vehicle phaseout is sometimes called an ICE ban - or an internal combustion engine ban. Many countries are planning for a diesel ban in addition to a gasoline ban for new car sales. The long list of countries planning to ban fossil fuel vehicles shows a growing trend of countries moving beyond gasoline to cleaner, cheaper alternatives.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

In some countries, you have as little as 7 years to buy a new gasoline (ICE) car. IMO you realistically have less time, since you won't want to buy a car in the last years leading up to the ban, as demand is likely going to skyrocket.

Those who are too poor choosing not conform and surrender $70,000 shall be put in slave camps mining lithium for batteries.