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Here's a link to the NPR article linked in this post for the lazy
The thing that's keeping me from buying a new EV - apart from price - isn't the electric. It's everything else about the car. I don't like how they look, I don't like the giant touch screens, I don't like the gimmicky features that do nothing but add cost.
Then again, I found out today that I'm a "Harbinger of Failure" so maybe it's a good thing that I'm not buying an EV.
Had meant to post the NPR article. Edited to link directly to it.
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Don't forget that they're ruthlessly collecting and selling your data as well. They're worse than any other consumer product.
I definitely consider myself a conservationist, but I'll keep my '98 Grand Cherokee that costs $50 max to fix, thanks.
There's also an argument that it's "more green" to keep the car you have until it dies than buy a new electric car.
Edit: Removed misinformation, link to explanation below. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/corporations-greenhouse-gas/
Where the heck you gettin that from?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/corporations-greenhouse-gas/
Turns out I was repeating a bit of misinformation steming from a poorly understood article.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/corporations-greenhouse-gas/
Turns out I was repeating a bit of misinformation steming from a poorly understood article.
My dude, they were so dedicated to making it weird that they gave it no glove compartment.
The only Subaru EV I can find is the Solterra, and it has all the same problems: I don't like the way it looks, I don't like the giant touch screen, and I don't want or need the driver assist features.
Can they just put an EV drivetrain into an 2003 WRX bugeye hatchback for me? And keep the stickshift.
Yes and I don't want that car either.
I don't have to because I never said I didn't like the electric, said I don't like the rest of the car.