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[Dormant] Electric Vehicles
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I'm undecided on getting an EV or not getting one, and this makes me glad I kept my old diesel: for one, nobody questions my ability to fuel up at any gas station. But also, all gas stations are designed to accommodate cars that have a tank filler on either side of the vehicle without forcing the driver to take up two spots.
The more I look at the EV world, the more I'm convinced I should wait until all the quirks are ironed out - by which point I'll probably be old enough to stop driving altogether.
from what I undertstand the climate impact is less if you drive your petrol/deisel car into the ground than if you ditch a functioning car to buy a newly manufacruted EV.
That's one of the factors that keeps me from getting an EV. It'll always be worse for the environment if I get a new car - EV or not - rather than continue keeping this old diesel in good working condition and driving it until it dies, because its manufacturing carbon cost is already spent. So the more I drive it, the more I dilute it.
But really, the real reason is because modern cars are friggin' spying devices. And that too goes for EVs and not EVs. That's really the biggest turnoff for me. I swear to God, when this car dies, I'm seriously considering going carless again, because I just don't want a car that's connected to the internet 24/7, spying on me and pulling software updates without my knowledge or my consent.
thats all fair.
someone else posted a reply to my comment that shows it might not be true that its better to keep pushing your deisel car rather than replace it with an ev.
I'm in the EU, so data protection is better than elsewhere, but I agree. I've looked into how to essentially disconnect the gps device and cellular comms devices from new cars for when I need to finally get one.
honestly will 100％ look into conversion of my current petrol car to ev, although it would not be economically smart to do so