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I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped | Rowan Atkinson
(www.theguardian.com)
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Good points. I agree. Rowan seems to be far off here.
I wonder when we'll learn, looking back, what the longevity of EVs is in practice. I don't have data but I expect to be the same or even better than ICEs. There's just so much more which can break in an ICE car, and which owners might choose not to fix.
Well now I'm just confused as to the point in sharing, since you provided no criticism of the article. It implied you thought it was a reasonable argument.
Well sharing it was always going to be a bit interesting since it was Rowan Atkinson, but I also believed what I've read previously about EVs being disappointingly "un-green" vehicles when battery manufacturing was taken into account. So yeah I thought it was a reasonable argument. I'm happy to have been corrected.
Ah gotcha, yeah this is an argument that comes up every once in a while where well-meaning people accidently do the comparison wrong or just fail to dig deeper.
There was actually a point in time where owning an electric vehicle in West Virginia was actually less energy efficient to drive than a regular gas car. Their grid was comically dirty and EVs were just getting started.
Kinda neat to learn Rowan has an engineering degree, I could have sworn he went to school for acting.