The average cost of owning a car varies widely - you may be thinking about the cost of a new car. My wife’s 2005 Prius has about 150k miles on it and costs us very little. Even if we drove it the usual 15k miles per year it would only take about 320 gallons of gasoline, so maybe $1500/year. The other costs of insurance, registration and maintenance are more than twice the cost of gasoline even for this chrapo car.

Of course if you want a giant behemoth or want to go 0-60 quickly or want fancy technology, then you will pay a LOT more. I just don’t think gasoline prices are a major factor in the USA.

I won’t. My wife switched because apple made the last small phone. She despises it.

I think you are talking about the onboarding experience, which has always been miserable. The mastodon enthusiasts doesn’t care because they already have the people they follow.

High interest rates would affect all new cars. So would inflation. The article mentioning the equivalent of $17.33 per gallon may not be your experience, but my marginal rate on electricity at my house is $0.59/kWh if I’m not careful. This is not “twisting the truth”, this is just reporting the fact that electricity rate vary MUCH more widely than gasoline prices.

It’s certainly true that a lot of people conjure up bogus arguments against EVs based on their politics, but it’s also true that EV enthusiasts often ignore the reality of other people’s situations.

I have a swimming pool with a solar heater. Without that the pool is useless. It would cost at least $20k to remove the pool. There is no room left for solar panels. This is why I got rid of my EV.

This is a problem that many EV enthusiasts ignore, namely that the price of electricity can easily vary by a multiplicative factor of 4, even at my home.

Your use of the term “personal brand” reeks of spam. One thing that could get you banned is overuse of hashtags, particularly if they are only peripherally related. People subscribe to hash tags and don’t want to see unrelated stuff.