Technology

We know they’re better, we just can’t afford them.

Better analogies would be automatic vs manual transmission, power steering vs not, and CarPlay/Google Maps vs a paper atlas.

I think a lot of people know you have to pay to charge and that charging can take nearly an hour and they don’t see the point. I didn’t know what it cost to charge an EV before. I saw an article yesterday where someone charged, if I read it correctly, 89% of their capacity (they were down to 11%), for $13.99. Get a petrol driver to figure out their capacity, multiply it by 0.89, then multiply that by the cost of petrol in their area. Then convert to US Dollars and see which is cheaper. Guarantee it’s electric.

Of course, that leaves another variable. Batteries, being consumable devices. How much is the EV’s battery to replace (including labour) and how long does the OEM part last?

My largest concern is not being able to prepay for electric usage. It hurts people who don't have credit cards. Plus it seems like there are like 30 different chargers you need accounts for.

Not at all a very convinient opinion for him as he maneuvered his company into a dead end doubling down on the combustion engine.

We had electric cars before ICE cars. The first car was electric.

Depends what you mean by "better" I suppose. Riding a horse is more enjoyable for me. Car is more efficient for long distance travel. I pretty much never drive a car for pleasure though.

The Car & The Horse:

A Short Tale a Djin Once Told Me (VOL I)

Once upon a time there was a human with a horse. It wasn't a poor human, but it was a simple one.

One day whilst plowing fields, forcing a horse to plow a course...("Jim", we shall name horse) thae human stumbled upon a brass lamp, ornately carved & brilliant to witness.

As the human was furiously rubbing the lamp with it's sleeve, Jim noticed some text on the bottom of the lamp and imagined what it might sound like..

"Neigh..", the human heard, curiously

BUT this isn't a tale of humans. It is a tale of horses and electric cars. The last of my tales dwarfed the original story, thus causing OP to delete the entire post. However, that story isn't gone forever. I still have it. This is simply a different one.

And this is a story about a horse.

FOR MORE HORSE STORY, INSERT COIN

like everything, "better" is relative. if they could simplify them enough not to be distracting during operation, that would be "better" imho. but as we have seen, theyre trying to shove ai into literally everything everywhere and it seldom benefits the user