Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Serious question: for those of you that have an electric car, what are the best and worst things about it?
Bas Gutwein@austinkocher
Good: No gas stations, have solar so it uses up my unspent net metering credits, quieter, less maintenance, paying for itself through mileage reimbursements.
Bad: long trips with 55kw max charging speed is not fun. Anything over 200 miles adds a 1/2 hour for every 1.5 hrs driven. Winter means 1/3 less range unless you don’t mind being cold then it’s 1/4 less range. Touch screens mean more pawing through menus and loss of privacy/autonomy. Doesn’t move society away from cars.