Omg dude, this is just getting silly. Good luck m8.

Me (and others) are trying to explain to you that your personal “experience” is not grounds to make statements like you are making (e.g. EVs are only for small trips). The fact that you choose to ignore all that and focus only on your own (limited) experience is not my fault.

Limiting it to “in my area” it would be absolutely fine and right, but you are incorrectly telling people like it is not ready for prime time yet everywhere, when it clearly is.

So if you let that go, there would be no need to keep repeating yourself ;) but you keep opening a can of worms if each reply contains a blanket statement.

I’ll let it go, sorry for hammering on about it.

I’ll just bluntly keep repeating myself just like you are repeating yourself (even after being presented with experiences talking about the opposite) -> EV is not for city purposes only.

Regarding synthetic fuels, i have seen no-one mention them as a serious solution except formula 1 perhaps ;) if you have proof that it would fix things, by all means let’s go for it.

Respect your personal choice. As long as it’s not discussed as “EV is only good for city trips”. I understand your personal situation and preference, but the facts are that that is an outdated view for many situations.

Ok, but there are always exceptions. You can’t use those as an argument. There are also some regions where it takes hours to stand in line for gas. Doesn’t mean that is the average and that I should go around teling people it is.

EV charging in EU (!) is on average (!!) almost identical to gas cars currently especially the newer models with 300KWh charging capabilities. I think it will take you less time to charge those than gas even.

Yeah ok, but now you are moving the goalposts on the fly. As long ad we are not making stuff up on invalid assumptions that’s fine. I’m not saying everybody needs to buy an EV. Just if people are using the argument that it is not user friendly to not get one, that’s false.

I can’t afford a ferrari either, doesn’t mean it’s a bad car.

Ps. As mentioned 6 times or so already, i am talking about the EU (said so from the start)

You don’t spend 5. You spend at least 10 minutes, where charging takes 15-20.

Not sure if you are making stuff up for the sake of it. But how you describe EV is nothing like the real world. Believe it how you want, but I will keep repeating (as an actual experience) that EV is a non-issue in this day and age.

On longer trips (1.000km and more) it will take approx 10% more time. Which is a no brainer.

Not sure what your location is, but have not had 1 single time where I had to wait at a charger. 9 out of 10 times we are alone at a charging spot of on average 8 available spots.

Again, EV in EU is a non-issue. I often had to wait longer at gas stops in the past.

Just came back from a EU holiday with an EV. 3.000km without any issue whatsoever. The gas car that joined us was 1 hour faster in the end (on a 12 hour drive).

In the EU at least, a 300km range EV is stressfree and totally doable.

Amateur hour

Amateur hour

That took around a year too long.

Can’t add anything else to the discussion, i know too little about it. But a US tm is not legal in the EU without separate registration. But i would not waste any energy on it. The value is in the community, not in the name.

What would that mean? I think not much (but not a lawyer)

How does that work in the US? Since e.g. in the EU you can trademark everything and anything you like no questions asked almost. But it doesn’t mean anything if someone will dispute it. It doesn’t give you any rights or guarantees.

Just saying that 99% of users will not get this part of Lemmy. It will split all users across multiple communities where most will not even be aware of others.

I can be totally wrong, but this is my gut talking.

I think this is going to be the main bottleneck in the end. The principle of it might be great, but too many people won’t like this hurdle i’m afraid.