Gas vs Electric vehicles

[Smithy]

Which one do you prefer? Gas or Electric vehicles?
I love gas vehicles, sound from the engine, exhausts.. electric is boring no noise except from the tyres rubbing on the tarmac roads.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Gas! Climate change is a crock. My car never caused the end of an ice age. Climate does and has always changes.

 

[Don Alaska]

I think EVs are okay if they are not the only vehicle you own, especially here in the boonies. One daughter owns a Tesla and it kinda gives me the creeps as it monitors everything you do. The security features are okay though. One big issue is that they essentially "expire" in about a decade when the battery goes dead and there is no practical way to recycle the vehicle and no affordable way to replace the battery.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

My daughter has a MiniCooper, and it is kind of a hybrid, because it can run on the battery, and if the battery is low, then it switches over to gas to run on. She can plug it in overnight to charge up. I think that something like this is what i would prefer, although even a straight electric vehicle would get me everywhere that we go right now, because we only drive a few miles each week.
I like the idea of an electric vehicle, but it seems that they are not practical for a lot of situations, and there is a lot of talk about the vehicle can explode if they get flooded and the battery gets wet.
Of course, even a gas vehicle is probably not going to run after it has been in a flood, but at least it is not likely to explode.

 

[Don Alaska]

We are now on our generator due to a substation problem that hasn't been identified. I don't think our generator would charge an EV well, so we could be grounded. I have mucho petrol stored however, so I can run our gas vehicles for some time. If the outage is widespread, you wouldn't even be able to drive to a charging station, especially in cold weather. I like fossil fuels, particularly in cold climates. The plug-in hybrids could be the ideal solution.

 

[BethG]

I'm a gasoline engine gal, though I have to say that the recent crazy-lib attacks on Elon/Tesla have me considering buying one.

 

[Sunny]

No desire to own an electric vehicle. And now, I definitely wouldn't buy one for reasons that have nothing to do with cars.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

When Biden was president, he was all for electric vehicles, electric stoves, and pretty much everything electric, and against gas stoves , and even more against gas-hog vehicles.
He had special discounts for electric vehicles, and Biden supporters went out and bought them.

Now, we have these same people setting electric car dealerships on fire. They have just published a map, showing where the owners of Tesla electric vehicles are located and with an icon of a Molotov cocktail.

People who were supporters of electric vehicles are now being arrested for torching them. The whole thing was never about which kind of a vehicle is best for the earth; it was a political maneuver, and is obvious by how fast the same people switched from being for electric vehicles to being against them.

 

[Sheryl]

I might would buy an electric vehicle after they make them practical. But I think they have a ways to go before they accomplish that.

They are supposed to help the environment but, right now, they contribute more pollution than they eliminate. What on Earth are they going to do with those lithium batteries? Who can afford a car that has batteries that cost as much to replace as a new car?

And my opinion is totally unpolitical.

 

[Smithy]

I like the fact my diesel car can do 600 miles before I need to fill up again. Electric cars would need to be charged 2-3 times within 600 mile area.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I would love to have a hybrid. But I keep wishing and wishing and wishing, and I never win the lottery.

We looked into one and I don't recall the exact prices in 2016, but today, a Prius hybrid's MSRP is $28,350 and a Tesla model 3 hyrid is $40,380. Which kind suggests to me that Tesla's are a car for rich people.

 

[Nancy Hart]

An electric vehicle would have been fine for me for the last 20 years, because I haven't traveled much more than 50 miles per day since then. Usually much less. If I had an EV, and ever wanted to go on a long trip, I'd probably just rent a car for that purpose.

 

[Smithy]

Vehicles are getting more expensive, but they still don't up the hourly wage in England, UK anyway.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I would not own an electric car until they have been around for a little longer.
Our old 30-year-old van runs great "thanks Jake" and will go for 450 miles without stopping for fuel. It has a large 341 engine and a 35-gallon gas tank, although great on gas mileage.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

This is a 1910 Bailey electric vehicle, @Marie Mallory .
Electric cars have been around for about the same length of time as gas vehicles. There were also vehicles back then that could run on alcohol or gasoline fuel.
This is actually one of the main reasons that Rockefeller supported Prohibition, and he financed the people advocating for alcohol abstinence, because it also stopped them from making the alcohol to fuel their vehicles.
Rockefeller owned Standard Oil, so he wanted cars to run on gas only, and that is the main reason we did not have electric or alcohol fueled vehicles for the past 100 years.
It is a pretty interesting story about Rockefeller and Prohibition if you research it.

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