All electric vehicles?
I guess electrically powered vehicles are coming but seems to me they are presently only a rich person's toy with present technology. By that I mean, they're only good for around town and short trips ...
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Reisender wrote:mich800 wrote:time2roll wrote:
Not affordable to all. Even the low end VW coming up will not be affordable to all. In the mean time I recommend a used vehicle. And stay away from a new diesel truck too... those are not cheap either.
But you also do not need multiple vehicles to do one job. Electric vehicles are a niche market and will be for some time. It is the play toy for those that can afford an extra vehicle. Nothing wrong with that. But we are a long way off from them becoming the standard. And that is if they even become the standard before a different technology takes over. I have lived long enough to see fads come and go and have learned the lessons that just because something gets traction with early adoption that it will be around long term.
I don't know. The number of EV only households is growing quite fast. Kinda depends on where you live and what you do but I can't see why an EV only household wouldn't work. We have been an EV only household for 3.5 years. They serve 100 percent of our needs. We don't do a ton of kilometers. Maybe 16000 per year between the two vehicles. Just in our neighbourhood there are two other EV only families so some us of seem to be able to make it work. Kinda depends on your needs. If I was the one gentleman who was on here and having to routinely drive 500 km at minus 30 I would be driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee with all the fixins, Until that happens well stay with the advantages of all electric.
The growing rapidly is not my experience here in the northeast. I don't know anyone in my neighborhood and no one at my place of employment that has an EV, none. I Googled electric vehicle charging stations on Long Island where about over seven million people live and there are maybe 10 ~ 15. I realize every home and business is ultimately a charging station but there is near zero infrasture devoted to EV in this area. The demand just hasn't materialized.
Beyond automobiles you also have a number of companies trying to promote the electric motorcycle. HD, Polaris and a few other companies have been trying to build that segment but in that area also cost versus performance is still a very big hurtle. $18,000 for a bike that has the performance of an $8,000 750cc gas engine isn't cause for a lot of excitement.
At some point it may happen but I think a lot more has to be done with respect to cost, performance and infrasture before we're truly going to see major gains in the EV industry.
