This is a remarkable graph.
You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.
That's not what's happening.
What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."
Or, put differently, "Tesla is failing harder than the entire rest of the market is succeeding, combined."
1. My garage is on the opposite side of my house from my electrical panel.
2. My electrical panel is full.
3. Installing a car charger would involve upgrading the feed from the street to support the extra 50A circuit.
4. If you found a qualified, licensed electrician to do that job for $700 including the cost of the charger, please give me his name, because he's the cheapest electrician I've ever heard of.
@jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye When I do road trips I do straight through trips. (half of my annual mileage is my summer beach trip, and I usually do it in a single drive with a 10 minute gas break.
530 miles in about 6 hours. Can't do that in an electric.
@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye
You would need maybe two charge stops. So it would take 40 minutes total, 30 additional minutes.
Definitely sounds like a dealbreaker to me.
@arigesher
It's kinda funny that my Tesla owning friend and I do one annual road trip to the same place every year, and weve never been able to take his car because there are no Tesla chargers on the route at all (and are very few chargers in general.)
Someday, maybe. Considering the state of Tesla and them laying off the supercharger staff, I'm not holding my breath
@arigesher
That said, if you have a multi car family like a lot of Americans, an EV is a fucking great 2nd car. Low maintenance cost, great resale value, super effective for short trips.
Tesla owning friend bought his pretty much exclusively because his work provides chargers as a perk, so his commutes and all the trips to the store and kid drop-offs and whatnot essentially have zero fuel cost.
@mav I don't commute. At all. I average about 2500 miles a year.
I also drive an old car instead of throwing mine away and upgrading every few years, which is also horrible for the environment.
@ShredderFeeder me too on both counts, we should be friends :)
My car is 16 years old this year, and cars are so expensive now that it's really quite a bit more practical to do maintenance and repair than it used to be; not only is throwing your car out and getting a new one terrible for the environment, but it's also not even effective from a sociopathic capitalist point of view.
@jannem @CosmicTraveler @mav @ShredderFeeder @mhoye chargers are being built out at a good clip. I’ve been able to do roadtrips in California in a Rivian R1T (so no Tesla chargers).
I guess it depends on where you live for now - a temporary problem.
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