Ever since getting an EV, I’ve noticed drivers to be a-holes! This guy in a huge truck spit in my direction for no reason!
All over social media people will key teslas, and talk crap. Has anyone else had weird experiences?
Ever since getting an EV, I’ve noticed drivers to be a-holes! This guy in a huge truck spit in my direction for no reason!
All over social media people will key teslas, and talk crap. Has anyone else had weird experiences?
The people that speak the loudest are the people who never driven one or charged one.
Redditors do be like that especially after they turned on Elon. So quick to shit on Tesla but never had a chance to sit in or drive one. Same goes for any ev. They’re just better than ice cars.
yes, and pardon me I just dont like or support Nazis.
As a Jew, you’re watering down the term massively, ultimately resulting in making a real genocide look like a walk in the park. Don’t do that.
The Tesla has been around long enough that it’s novelty is wearing off. Other options are now out there and while they might have their downside, they are an easier transition for many. I briefly flirted with a Tesla but ultimtely didn’t like too many things about it and went with a Kia hybrid for now.
Elon being a mega-douche is cherry on top.
Downvoters haven’t driven an EV.
Plenty of people think Elon is an idiot while still thinking Tesla’s are probably the best electric car out there. Also, plenty of deserved criticism of Tesla. That’s mostly what I see on Reddit rather than a blanket hatred of electric cars.
Yes. I’ve seen a few social media posts where someone says they used to hate EVs and then they came around and tried one and now they own one lately. Those are encouraging.
There was a study done in Norway this year tjat showed that the majority of people with range anxiety for electric cars had never owned or driven one.
Day to day I have 0 range anxiety. When it is really hot or really cold, it starts creeping in. When it’s a particularly busy day and really cold, the anxiety is full force in my M3. I expect this to be resolved in the next gen not only for the better battery tech and efficiencies, but due to destination chargers popping up in more and more places.
I would have 0 anxiety, and just a minor annoyance, even on the coldest days, if I could just plug in at 240/30a at one of my destinations for an hour or two.
Newer Teslas have more efficient heat pumps that use very little energy. I have a 2019 Model 3 that loses a lot of range in winter, but the loss in my 2021 Model Y is hardly noticable.
In Norway you can’t throw a rock anywhere without hitting a charger, though, so there is rarely a risk of running out of battery.
I’m jealous for your chargers. It’s not like I drive more than a few hundred miles in any give direction. East or West from where I am is fine. North or South on the other hand. There are a few chargers, but I would be driving 30 minutes out of my way to get to them. It’s massively inconvenient.
Heatpumps below 45F start to steeply decline in efficiency. Trying to warm my car up on a 20F day (which is how I start most days 4 months out of the year) saves me, at most 1.5kw an hour with a heat pump. That’s 6 miles an hour if the rest of the M3 is running perfectly. During 3 hours of driving, I would gain about 18 miles. Although not insignificant, it’s not some holy grail to EV range and not enough to make a noticeable difference.
I just really wish our charging infrastructure was better in the US. Give it another 5 years and I think we’ll be just fine.
20F is -6C, which would be a mild winter day where I’m from. And honestly, even with those temperatures and snow on the roads I don’t notice that much range loss in my 2021, compared to losing almost half in my 2019 without heat pump.
Tests in Norway show a range loss of around 6% in newer Teslas during winter.
Isn’t that going to be a self-selecting group? People for whom range isn’t an issue are obviously going to buy them since their situation allows it.
Maybe range anxiety of the non-owner group is misplaced for a subset, but without additional detail it could also be a valid concern amongst that cohort depending on use.
There’s also the simple fact that the vast majority of cars on the road in Norway are still not BEVs, so the “never owned one” cohort is likely to have more opinions (of all types) anyway by virtue of being ~4x the size of the BEV owner cohort.
Depends how you define “vast majority”. Electric cars are getting close to 25% of cars on Norwegian roads now.
It was 20% in March this year. Not sure when the “study” was undertaken, but I’d say 80% is the vast majority compared to the 20% alternative, and so it’s not a surprise that the 80% contains more opinions (of all types, not just concern about range) than the 20%. With that difference in size, you can make a “study” say whatever you want as long as you selectively report that “people who don’t have an EV say X” without providing that context.
There’s probably more people having sex every day amongst people who have never owned an EV, too. More people with an IQ over 180 as well. All meaningless, but hey it’s a study and that’s what it says.
Once you factor in that someone for whom range is an issue is unlikely to buy an EV, it seems like a no-brainer that the 4x larger cohort would have more concerns about range.
By the way, I followed your link, as 20% sounded low to me. The pie chart on the source says 23,6% of all cars in Norway is electric.
Which is more in line with what the State Road Authority said in July this year: We are approaching 24% electric car ownership.
https://www.vegvesen.no/om-oss/presse/aktuelt/2023/07/nar-24-prosent-elbilandel/
Considering over 80% of new cars sold are electric now, my guess of 25% now is probably accurate. We will see when new numbers come out next year.
Your own link says that 83% of new cars in Norway are BEV, the 20% is total cars on the road, including used. The nearly 5x cohort of new car buyers have no problem with range.
It’s because an EV owner is most likely a liberal obviously
I think you are correct. In a conservative and love my EV.
They literally removed the only two public electric chargers in the entire 40,000 person city next to mine and the city commissioners’ reasons were “well I don’t have one and I don’t plan on getting one.”
The crazy part is one commissioner had two electric cars and said they can remove the chargers because they weren’t fast enough. No talk of replacing them, so the charge speed is 0kwh now.
Where in the world did that happen?