Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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China-led EV boom cuts global oil demand by 1.7mn barrels a day (www.intellinews.com)

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My ev goes about 80 miles on 20kwh, which is about half a gallon of gas, lets call it 0.75 gallos of gas.

80 miles/0.75 gallons = 106 miles per gallon, which is almost exactly 4x more efficient than my gas car i had before.

Ignoring oil changes or whatever, if i exclusively charged my car via gasoline generator, id still be better off than someone with a gas powered car.

Now add on that a power plant is much more efficient than a gas powered generator, or that they may have renewable sources for their power, and... Why isnt everyone swapping to EVs?

Newer ones charge in 15 mins or less, you can plug it in at home, its cheaper, has less maintenance, typically more storage, environmentally conscious, quieter so you can hear music better, the accelleration is very punchy when needed and smooth the rest of the time (if youre into that kinda thing).

It makes no sense.