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Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (91 children)

I would like to buy an electric car but I will not because;

I don't have a garage.
I live in a very wintery climate and don't trust the battery to take it/don't want to heat a battery
The closest chargers are at least 50 km away in other towns
My house has 60 amp service (upgrading that is on the todo list, but it's a long list)
I don't trust the battery to last longer than the life of the lease

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (53 children)

Most of those fears aren't completely valid anymore.

You can park it outside.
winter gets you less mileage but not the end of the world, some of the fastest growing EV markets are cold countries.
You might be surprised, a lot of grocery stores and even workplaces have some basic charging capabilities. Plus you can charge at home.
If you have an electric dryer you can charge your car overnight, just don't do both together.
Batteries will outlast any lease, if you're looking to get 10-15 years out of a car that would be understandable, but if you're leasing it won't be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect 10+ years or more out of a car without shelling out a large sum of money for a battery swap. This is probably my only concern. Repairability and the cost of those repairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't think I said that's an unreasonable concern anywhere. If the EV offering doesn't meet your requirements now, don't get one.

Current EVs meet a lot of people's requirement, so they're getting more popular. They're also getting better, cheaper, charge faster, last longer, have longer range, and weigh less every year. They're literally getting better in every way faster than anyone thought possible thanks to how popular they are.

Hopefully soon there will be an EV that does match your requirement. Maybe there never will be, but you'll probably be in the minority and that's for the best because we need to get ICE passenger vehicles off the road and into niche applications where nothing else works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If the EV offering doesn't meet your requirements now, don't get one.

That's it exactly. 7 years ago EV's were way out of my price range and, to my mind, did not offer me value for money. This year when we went shopping, they were cheaper, there were way more options, but they were not available without a significant lead time and I wasn't fully sold on their reliability. I fully expect^hope that in 7 years from now we'll need to shop around to find a ICE car.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I agree that all of those things are improving but repairability or even the right to repair new electric vehicles is flaky at best and that's my concern. I don't want to own a vehicle that I'm unable to repair. Not to mention manufacturers locking features behind paywalls.

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