Having private car is about enjoying music on the ride.
Are those colors mostly flashing red and blue?
Indeed. We live in Groningen in the Netherlands, a compact medium size town with 200k inhabitants. We bought a house on the edge of town that is still only 15 minutes cycling from of our work at the university in the city centre (15 minutes), and 10 minutes cycling from the main railway station (and 5 minutes from a smaller one), with intercity trains to the rest of the country every 30 minutes (and local trains even more often). The house was quite a bit more expensive than in the surrounding villages, but for years we even managed without a car. The money saved by not having a car allowed us to buy a really nice but very expensive house. I think it was a smart trade off. Our children also loved that they could go out drinking in the evenings without any complex logistics. Cycling infrastructure is excellent: there is a 'bicyle highway' in front of our house that brings people from the villages right into the city. We do nearly all our shopping by bicycle, and if we need a lot such as when we are having a big party we use the car that we still own. That car is in fact mostly a shared family ride with our children who also still live in town, and sometimes borrow it, to haul big things or sometimes for their holidays.
Can’t define it. Probably blue when accelerate and red when brake, etc. I feel different color when deep turn corner, my body pressed to the back seat. So much more. But it’s the music that give the color.
I lived there. In Chapel Hill NC it was impossible to survive without a car. Next time I had a sabbatical it was in Princeton, and I negotiated for an appartment within walking distance of the department. That worked fine, but since then the small supermarket where I was buying my food has closed, so I am not sure how I could manage there now. Last time was at the IAS in Princeton, where there is a van service to take you into town, and to a shopping mall. In fact, the only way to get there is by taking the Interstate, so cycling would be impossible. Recreational cycling was fine, however.
I'll never understand why people make these clearly false, unsubstantiated blanket statements.
It's quite easy to understand if you have the right circumstances.
Yeah but you didn't say "right circumstances" before. You just made a blanket statement that's easy to disprove.
I wasn't aggressive, just factual.
I don't like ICE cars "better". If that's what you understood, there's little else I can say.
@symphara, sorry but you're simply repeating the clichéd anti-EV chant -- this is not to say that these comments are untrue, only that they are increasingly irrelevant and obscure the real EV benefits.
You have to make up your mind. It's either an "anti-EV chant" or a factually true statement, it cannot be both.@symphara, sorry but you're simply repeating the clichéd anti-EV chant -- this is not to say that these comments are untrue, only that they are increasingly irrelevant and obscure the real EV benefits.
EV ranges are increasing incrementally and, anyway, current ranges already satisfy the needs of most drivers almost all the time. We drive two cars at our place and either or both could be EVs with no problems of range or charge time. In fact most EVs are charged at the owners' homes overnight -- thus equating to virtually zero charge time and much less time overall than spent driving to and filling at gasoline stations.
The extra weight of EVs is essentially irrelevant given their fuel cost vs. gasoline (or diesel) fuel, and their on-road performance. Maintenance costs are lower than for ICE vehicles even considering the long-term cost of battery replacement. Driving differences are easily mastered and have nowhere been reported as a significant issue.
The issue finding convenient charging stations while traveling is becoming very easy in all but the most remote locations -- and the prevalence of charging stations will only become less of a problem with more EVs on the roads.
Yes, some power grids will have to be improved but it's far from an insurmountable problem in terms of cost, location, funding, or regulations. Generally, no new locations or rights-of-way are going to be need for power lines or distribution infrastructure. Where I live, Ontario, Canada, over 90% of electricity is produced by non-greenhouse producing methods.
Ontario Electricity generation by fuel type, 2019 ...
This is why I mentioned use cases before. For me, an EV just won't fly even if I could afford one.
I can afford a really nice one but I have limited garage space and it fails to win one of the existing spots.
Me too, but the comparison wasn't brushing teeth vs pluging in and out an EV, was it? I was always surprised at people praising the lack of having to go to a petrol station. That's something I do maybe 3x a month with an ICE and it takes 5 minutes, and it's not out of my way. Charging an EV is death by a thousand cuts by comparison. I can't wait for some kind of wireless standard.
Nobody said they should be free. I was merely describing our situation. We're lucky that we can charge from home, even as the investment for that was fairly large (it cost us 1.4k for the wiring/connectivity and meter, without the charging controller itself which came with the car - yeah, Swiss prices). Charging outside the home is much more troublesome and expensive than what we pay for electricity at home.
