EV batteries can be and are recycled.
Tesla never really marketed their cars as green. Their website only states trying to move towards sustainable energy. Totally different. The idea of EV’s being green is a leftist trope, not a manufacturers promise.
I'll go one further and say that the "green" narrative is a straw man constructed by ice manufacturers big oil and the media (three in the same).
(I know you already have a preconceived notion and I might as well be talking to the wall)
My boss who is on his second Tesla (wife wrecked the first) and drives it 160 miles every day and charges it OUTSIDE in Michigan IN THE WINTER says these idiots who are bricking their cars are not prepping their battery before connecting to a super charger.
That's not wrong. The short version is, anybody that owns an EV and doesn't have a garage, and lives where it snows, is a fucking idiot. I have a friend in Illinois and the only car that would start was the EV, because it was the only one frequently driven, and lived in an insulated (but not heated) garage. People aren't ready for having to use their car energy to prep it to accept energy. They just want to fill up and go like normal people do.
Wrecking EVs is also normal. People can't drive as it is. Putting them in cars with acceleration and high brake regen settings so they start doing 1 pedal driving, increases the incidents of collision by 15% in the first year over driving cars with normal settings. Making those the default rental cars ended exactly like it sounds it would, disaster. It was always a stock pump scam by a temporary CEO at Hertz who was gone shortly after making the announcements of their EV revolution.
I'll go one further and say that the "green" narrative is a straw man constructed by ice manufacturers big oil and the media (three in the same).
Maybe? That's the opposite of the normal conspiracy theory lol. It's "BIG OIL COLLUDES WITH LEGACY AUTOMAKERS FOR INEFFICIENCY!" as the marketing trope, which completely ignores the fact they aren't legacy automakers, they're people that know how to build cars in a competitive market, and it was a contrived insult to pump EV startup stocks. Also, "Big Oil" doesn't exist, it's Big Energy. Big Oil and Big Green are all the same Big Energy conglomerates.
I do love pulling up to a pump next to the virtue signaling type of Hybrid owner with my hugely inefficient V-12 Jag, or 77 Cutlass.
Dirty not-so-secret of plug-in hybrids. To get the environmental benefits you have to plug them in. Nobody plugs them in.
Boss lady at the last job had a Tesla. They drove it to Vegas once - and the passenger told me that half way there, the boss lady had to turn off the AC and radio.
It's not that far of a trip.
EVs are good for the kind of driving I do. Just around town and in the city. Perfect. Not for any kind of road trip. Like, I'm not driving to Phoenix in one. No way.
If you are going to have an electric car, it has to be a Tesla, they are heads and shoulders above all the rest. That said, I'm not paying $70,000 for my second car
You can get into a used Model 3 cheap since the rental companies are dumping their inventories. < $30k for a 2021 with 22k miles. It's depreciating the entire used EV market.
and head and shoulders above the rest is just sad, because they're pieces of shit. What's going for them is they exist in volume so you don't have to pay $20k for a bumper replacement like a Rivian.
You guys really don't know anything about any of this stuff, huh?
Yeah yeah. How am I supposed to recharge one of those damn things while at the deer camp? Huh?
What kind of maintenance does a Tesla require compared to a car with a gas engine?
What kind of maintenance does a Tesla require compared to a car with a gas engine?
As far as I know, very little. Up until the point where the battery decides to go. Then it'll cost you more than the car's worth. NEW.
It's not for everyone, especially rata de pantano cubana.
Yeah yeah. How am I supposed to recharge one of those damn things while at the deer camp? Huh?
What kind of moron would take a sedan to deer camp??
You guys really don't know anything about any of this stuff, huh?
I sell containers of what are classified as Fast Moving Parts. I'm balls deep in what actually breaks on cars.
Where people have a logical fallacy is they think, easier to maintain power train, less maintenance! but engine maintenance is cheap unless you go out of your way to make it expensive for yourself, and aside from the basics of oil & filters, EVs eat more tire sets, and the bulk of the fast movers aren't power train specific. Suspension, body parts, moldings, glass, glass, more glass. Remember that time nobody wanted to make aftermarket Tesla glass because they were afraid of camera calibration issues? Definitely-not-Indy remembers.
What kind of moron would take a sedan to deer camp??
Hummer EV, Lightning, Rivian..
THAT thing is not a primary vehicle unless you have a man-bun and Birkenstocks
Amazing.
Admittedly not too many Birky's in January
Usta work with a guy who drove an old Ford Highboy. Forty miles each way. Making $12 an hour. I said to him... "Hey Ski, why don't you get a little shitbox that's good on gas to drive to work?" He began shaking with rage as he exclaimed, "I'll never drive anything but a truck."
Societal conditioning is a powerful thing. You have been brainwashed to believe you're not a real man unless you drive an impractical gas hog. Big Three and Big Oil thank you.
