John & Angela wrote:
Cummins12V98 wrote:
"EV drivers think differently then gas drivers. We rarely run the "tank" to empty."
I am guessing YOU are this way but is there some sort of study showing how EV drivers "think" ?
I have ZERO problems with EV cars I assume the upper end ones are a BLAST to drive. I do have a problem with the Superior than though attitude. The ones that feel there should be public charging stations for them free of charge because they are "saving the earth". Or as I motioned earlier the one that drug a cord across the steps to our accountant and made an unsafe condition just because that person failed to have their car fully charged before venturing out for the day.
Really irks me is when they tout "Zero Emissions" what a joke! There was an environmental impact when that EV car was made no different than any other vehicle and possibly worse.
Good morning. I can't relate to the "holier than thou" attitude as I haven't seen it. It may a regional thing to your area as I don't think I have ever heard annyone run across that. I''m also not up on anyone expecting free power. Some places have free chargers as a way to attract business for other products they sell but most actually charge for the power. Walgreens is a good example of this. Most of us charge at home on our dime.
The zero emmisions thing is just hype but mostly refers to the fact that once the vehicle has been manufactured it produces very little emmisions. I don't think anyone anywhere would be silly enough to argue that a gas or diesel powered vehicle emits a lot of emmisions compared to an electric vehicle. That's just common sense...backed up by every study ever done. From beginning to end an electric vehicle produces much less emmisions than a fuel fired vehicle. No one (anymore) is disputing this.
Happy trails.
If a business has to fuel a customer's vehicle to get them to be a customer they are either 1. a fuel station or 2. a not very good business. Yes, some businesses have installed recharging stations but there isn't a single one the relies on those customers to support their business models.
I would bet if you got a straight answer from them, they would say they installed them for the PR value only. Kind of like the county I live in deciding to continue to have glass recycling containers and then taking that glass to the landfill with all the other garbage. I has become too expensive to ship the glass to a refractory that will accept it (if there even is one that would take it, the county couldn't find one). But the county got so much flak from the recycling crowd when they decided to continue with the recycling containers so "the citizens will not get out of the habit of sorting recyclables" should the situation change and recycling of the glass becomes practical in the future. The county pegged the additional cost of having to empty the recycling containers into the common trash at "less than $100,000 per year" . Seems the trucks that empty the trash cans and dumpsters cannot empty the recycling bins, so the have to have the recycling contractor pick up the glass recycling and take it to the landfill transfer station. My tax dollars at work, making someone feel a bit more comfortable hugging their tree.
And that holier than thou crowd is heavily populated. Just watch Leonardo Di Caprio climb aboard a private jet to fly across the Atlantic to personally pick up his award for environmental awareness and then return the next day. Though, to be fair, he may have driven his Prius from one of his several 10,000 sq. foot plus homes to and from the airport.
