I don’t quite understand the support for ICE vehicles.
1)Can be refueled in a couple of minutes
2)Real, actual, mileage is 900-1000km with a full tank
3)Doesn't suffer cold, the excess heat turns in handy
4)Is not designed from the ground up to be a rental model only
4bis)Is not designed from the ground up to be serviced by the manufacturer only, and the service is exclusively a costly replacement
5)Is not currently a global scale greenwashing operation
6)People can actually afford an ICE family car
This is more or less the list of reasons why i keep going with diesels.
Note that the list reflect my habits, the state of the roads, the alternatives to private cars, the climate i live in and i do not expect to be right over anybody else. However i expect people to understand my point of view and not just dismiss it because it's them who are right.
I am also aware that technology moves on, solutions are found, habits change and the environment around us change so i don't expect to use a diesel until the day i die, it's just the current state of things as i see them.
1)Fast refueling is a big, big deal for probably everybody that has to travel for leisure or for work. For commuting, it doesn't matter. MY small town alone of 9000 people have 10 to 20 recharge spots in parking and businesses. Place of business could/should also offer a charging station for employees. However, for travel... see 2). In this i am all for battery swap and fuel cells. Fast charge, not so much.
2)Declared range of many Electric cars is around 400km, yet you will never achieve that at highway speed. You have to severly limit the power output curve (incidentally we are working on such a device, we started developing that for teslas that had to run on the track, they went from two and a half laps to forty, same lap time. Not bad. Anyway, planning a trip and relying on high voltage chargers, maybe it needs a change of habits.
3)As we all know range is lower with cold, and you have to waste even more power to keep the cabin warm. I have been blocked in more than one snow storm, with still 60hours worth of fuel (engine idling) so i knew i would keep warm
4) and 4bis) car manufacturers are using electric models as an excuse to propose new model of businesses in which the private car is not yours, they have an insane amount of control over what you do and what you can do (see the shit merced does for example). Also, they want to kill independent repair because those cars are not really made to be serviceable - yet. The work that is being done in the battery by third parties is incredible, but there shouldn't be a need for it, the manufacturers should provide the information already. And let go with pairing every module, replacing a sensor is becoming like replacing the touch id on an iphone (I am with right to repair if it wasn't clear)
5) At the current state electric vehichles are greenwashing, period. They are currently not greener, depending on where you live, because you are still charging them with electricity coming from coal, oil, gas. If most of the electricity came from nuclear (also pro nuke here) and hydro i would be more okay with that. However they are still not green because the particulate emission from the car itself is almost the same. Why? Brakes and Tires. With Euro 6 the particulate from the engine is negligible compared to the particulate from tires and brakes, and i care about particulate because
in my area that is the main problem, not NOx nor COx. Claiming to get an EV for the environment, to me, is bullshit. Just don't use that excuse please. But again, that is going to change in the future, we will get there.
6) All TCO analysis i've seen on comparing small luxury sedans and family cars, that show the TCO for electric being lower, first is completely misleading because they always omit the fact that (currently) you are not paying the income tax on the car and (currently) there are no taxes on electricity for recharging cars. Let's see how that goes when the number of EVs increase, i will be
And people seem to forget that those who drive older cars can't afford new ones, and if they can't afford a new one they certainly can't afford an EV, the initial cost is just too high.