There are couple of problems with EVs:

• they lack any aesthetic (at least vast majority), they look like a toy or a modern appliance, plastic and cheap
• they feel like ‘go from A to B’, soul-less
• they have a constant uplink to a cloud with telemetry of my every move and every fart with no option to opt-out
• no fucking physical buttons (some of them are just now pulling they head out their asses and reverting the design choice)
• expensive, paying premium price for cheap feel
• we don’t really know how (un)reliable they are (there are a lot of new brands and new models)
• infrastructure not ready in a lot of countries, and if you’re living in an apartment building without a parking garage or charger nearby you’re fucked

Other than that, yeah, they might be superior to an ICE cars.

Ps. I wouldn’t be caught dead in Tesla. Fuck Mussk

I like electric cars, they’re not for me I personally hate modern cars looks, computerisation, screens, and lack of any discernible personality, but the more people who own EVs, the longer I will be able to keep running my ICE car.

I do realise I’m a luddite, but I see vehicles as more than just a tool for travelling from one point to another- which EVs are great for- and more of a symphony of engineering to create something that has a distinct personality, every engine drives slightly differently and I think that is much more engaging than what is possible with EVs. (I do think the fake gear changes in cars like the Ioniq 5n are a bit silly as they’re not necessary)

I don’t know actual numbers but my physics teacher said that he’d worked out that his car which had almost 400,000 miles on it had just about created the same amount of CO2 emissions in its use as it had in its creation but regardless of whether he was correct I think there’s something to be said for not constantly replacing cars and keeping existing ones running as long as possible, there’s a lot of materials that go into producing a car that are at best environmentally expensive to recycle.

We had electric cars before ICE cars. The first car was electric.

I have no doubts about electric cars being nice or “the future”, but the price of these things is still a problem.

A (reasonably) new one with the range I need (~400km+) costs way more than I care to spend. That is partly because batteries still cost too much, but also very much because they still have a tendancy to gatekeep larger range figures for use in luxury cars.

And getting older second hand is still too much a questionmark in terms of how much of a chance there be you’ll end up having to fork over big for a new battery or motor and/or write it off prematurely.

Another problem is that I also have no way to charge it at home and would be fully at the mercy of public charging infrastructure. And generally speaking as a taller man, I feel some of them can also be quite lacking in terms of interior space.

Electric cars are great, but I’ll be dead before you catch me in one made by any major corp. I’d rather build my own than buy their crap.