I can't really support doing things for coolness factor while we have so many problems here on earth. I think it would be cool to go to Jamaica, but not at the expense of defaulting on my mortgage. Because that's how responsible adults think.

That's silly, Elon is altruistic and he will definitely let other people have that opportunity before him. He will praise them as heros while he stays here.

He wants to pay for healthcare with tariffs. Americans are so screwed if he cuts back to that.

People are just confused because they grew up under capitalism, and it wasn't designed to transform to methods better for the planet. Capitalism only transforms to be more profitable.

Most houses will not have a charger just go in without some form of renovation to the house. You would be pretty lucky to have a breaker panel in your garage with a spare circuit.

Ok it's just that it seems EV proponents want them to become mainstream. I just point out the problems that will prevent them from becoming so.

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... And electricians are expensive. I'm just saying that there are a lot of extra costs that don't seem to get considered in articles when they analyze how long EVs take to pay off.

My house is around 100 eet long and the main circuit box is on the other side from the garage in the basement. Cables cannot be run through the basement ceiling, so they have to run a shielded cable around the outside of the house and into the garage. Apparently a 250 foot shielded copper cable runs around $2000. I fill my tank around once every two weeks at 90 a fill. Comes out to 45 weeks now that I do it again.

I block off large swaths of my time a month ahead of time to fight it. I get more meetings booked at the times that I want them and a lot of the people who double book listen to me when I tell them they double booked me. It was actually my manager that gave me this tip.

PHEVs are advertised as 80% efficient but in the real world people never charge them and they really only save about 20%.

It would cost me 48 weeks of gas just for the cable to run to my garage to charge an EV.

Norway can only make it work because of that oil. They sell it to a country who burns it and then they buy more chargers and buy off their citizens to use an EV while claiming they are still green. Even though the oil that they sold is doing more damage globally than the EVs their citizens are buying are helping.

They are using those oil reserves to basically buy everyone off into using EVs. That doesn't make them green, it just means they are pushing pollution into other countries.

People really think that there will be enough able to travel in enough places more safely, which isn't even proven. They haven't even diven in winter yet on a clear day, never mind a blizzard. With snow clearing equipment. This is the environment where 2/3 more accidents happen. Driving in clear dry conditions doesn't improve much safety overall because that's not where the most accidents happen