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  • Sure. But that all falls under incremental change. Don't get me wrong, I do think we really need to change the whole system from the ground up. But that will only work democratically, if the result is supposed to be better than what we have now.

  • Yes. I'm one of those. Violent overthrows of the current order usually only lead to one clique of oppressors being replaced with another one. "But this time it will be different, for sure!" isn't a convincing argument.

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  • I'd rather wait for some more reliable sources than Business Insider quoting from Blick. But yeah, scary.

  • That's not how this stuff works. I never sit in my car waiting for it to charge. Sometimes I'll charge while shopping. Plug in the car, do your weekly grocery shopping come back, drive off. When you use a level 2 (shower) charger, you leave the car and come back after a couple of hours. It obviously depends on the available infrastructure in the places you normally go to. Takes a bit of planning and a bit of forethought. But it's really not rocket science.

  • FWIW I've had an EV for four years now and I rent an apartment with no charger too. There have been times when finding a charger has been inconvenient. But I've never looked back. None of those problems are insurmountable and most of the time it's a minor inconvenience at worst.

  • I always find it amusing how people go through such mental contortions to justify not buying an EV. If you don't want an EV, just don't buy one. Nobody cares.

  • Money doesn't buy happiness but poverty sure buys unhappiness.

  • So what do they power those gas pumps with? Electricity, by any chance?

  • Yeah, we should make all our infrastructure decisions based on the rarest edge cases.

  • They have electricity there, don't they?

  • Where do you get the idea from that an EV only has 20 miles of range? Have you ever even seen an EV let some driven one?

  • You just need a charging station every hundred kilometres or so, that's perfectly doable even in sparsely populated areas. In fact, this kind of infrastructure is far easier to roll out than gas stations.

  • You're certainly not the only one but you're also being grossly irresponsible. Sufficient breaks are essential for staying attentive. Not stopping for five or six hours is just asking for disaster. Just think about what you're going to feel like if you killed someone because you fell asleep at the wheel.

    Edit: and as per usual, lots of downvotes but no counterargument

  • I wish people would stop obsessing so much over range. Once we have decent charging infrastructure in place and people overcome all the FUD, this will simply cease to be relevant.

  • I remember reading about this stuff since the eighties and people had a pretty clear idea of the implications.

  • But a lot of shareholder value was created! Won't anybody think of the poor shareholders?

  • They should stop buying avocado toast and make their coffee at home!

  • I'm using VSCodium. It's just like VSCode just without the telemetry.