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Comment Re:Charging at home (Score 1) 151

Well you don't buy as many groceries as I do then. We just bought groceries and a water cooler and fit it all with the dogs. Why would I want to limit myself.

Buy a towable trailer.

What does moving house have to do with it?

That was a previous reason you used for an EV not being suitable. But now you are having an issue with car size which has precisely zero to do with EVs.

More like, the difference I can make is so pitifully small,

That's true for everyone, so let's just let the planet burn, eh?

Comment Re:Charging at home (Score 1) 151

Well my main reason happens weekly.

Previously, your use case for going ~1000 miles without a stop was moving house. I have dogs. I have a car. It has plenty of space for them to lie down. It doesn't need to be ICEV.

renting a vehicle is ridiculously expensive,

We went through this before. Firstly, the costs weren't what you said it was and secondly, you don't move house weekly, surely?

Nor do I consider it my obligation and duty to sacrifice

Now we get to the nub of it. I got mine.

Comment Re:Charging at home (Score 1) 151

Not entirely useless, but it's not useful to buy a car that doesn't do what you may need it to. It's a lot of money to spend just to box yourself in.

The counter to this is why buy one that pollutes more 99% of the time just so it can be used for that 1% when you can use alternative means (including not driving a dangerous amount of time non-stop which you kid yourself you are good at) or hire one. Sure, if you are hauling a boat every weekend and you can't find an EV that does it reliably, fine, but if it's having to move house across three states, then perhaps plan ahead a bit more.

Comment Re:It's all fun now, but ... (Score 1) 151

You need to first understand the difference between a warranty and MTBF. Just because 8 years are up doesn't mean the battery immediately fails and needs to be replaced. Secondly, there is a secondary market now for used EV batteries, although it's at an early stage, so the value of an old battery isn't necessarily zero. Thirdly, manufactures have in the past and possibly still do offer schemes where for a per mile fee they agree to replace the battery. However, as batteries are holding their charge better and the MTBF of the battery is heading towards the MTBF of other components, that's not really something companies are offering as much now.

Comment Re: Charging at home (Score 1) 151

Gas stations will replace your propane tanks

Don't see why they can't do the same with batteries

EVs aren't designed to be able to do this as it reduces overall structure weight if they are somewhat integrated into it. To make them replaceable requires additional car structural elements plus trunions and the like. It also requires standardisation, warranties, etc. That just not in place. Plus there is the potential issue of damaging connectors and the like causing issues such as fires. With the rate of charging increasing so rapidly, it's not likely to happen because the demand for it will be too low.

Comment Re:Charging in the U.S. (Score 1) 151

Unlike say South Korea, Japan, Europe...you can drive across the entire country in a day. In the USA it takes DAYS to cross the entire country.

People in Europe aren't restricted to stay in one country their whole lives. In fact it's not uncommon for them to drive from one country, right across another into a third. A friend of mine, who lives in France, relatively near the border, did his PhD in Italy. Plus, I think you've failed to understand how long Japan is and that driving from one end to the other would be difficult due to sea getting in the way. But Kagoshima to Aomori is about 1200 miles. I don't think you could safely drive that in a day as it's 24 hours of continuous driving according to Google Maps. I suppose you are technically correct - you could drive across those bits that are continuously connected by land and/or bridges in a day defined as 24 hours, but that would be pushing the definition as it would mean no breaks, not even to refuel your ICEV.

Comment Re:Hydrogen as fuel? but water considered dangerou (Score 1) 132

You are picking nits that don't change the result. Regardless of the power that can be extracted from sunlight is 5 watts or 50 watts per square meter that's still a lot of land use for energy compared to nuclear fission.

You were grumbling about cost, and now it's land use? Solar can be placed on domestic roofs, SMRs not so much.

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