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Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Cagers have this argument of "but what if I want to do this cross country trip to bumfucknowhere" ... Similar to when asked why they can't give up their car "what if I want to transport a washing machine" ... As if those people load up their cars with 5 tons of bulky cargo and be driving around the world on a daily basis and there not being any other ways to handle such edge cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

To be fair, this could be an argument. I don't have a car now, and when I do buy it - the usecase would be long road trips to where public transport is bad or carrying cargo to my vacation house. Only half of that would be easily doable with an EV's range. For city commutes, public transport is preferred, and trips to the vacation house without cargo could be made on electric trains faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What’s a cager? I can’t give up my car because I can’t bike to work, buses go way too fast on the highway which is dangerous and illegal, and I don’t earn enough to buy an EV or to relocate near my job.

You must understand that poor people can’t live in the EV utopia right now. Car makers will have to sell small and cheap EVs.