Electric Vehicle repair costs, insurance and rising costs.
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I'm talking from personal experience. Do you believe everything on the news? Especially Fox news?
When someone goes through a hardship and it's well documented, I personally don't have to relive it to validate it.
Many of the EV issues described in this thread a very legitimate and well known at this point in time. No one says to give up your EV. Own it if that's your cup of tea. EV market was faily unknown a few years ago. Now, people are more informed and can make a better, education decision on whether or not to buy EV.
Imho, EV have too many drawbacks to feel comfortable owning one.
The problem with a hybrid is that you have two separate engines to worry about. Fully EV or fully ICE is the only way I’d go. You’ll have better luck finding independent repair shops that will work on EV or ICE but not hybrids. A hybrid is the worst of both worlds, and you are pretty much stuck going to the dealership for maintenance and repairs
Many hybrids can’t be plugged in, especially earlier gen models. You have no control over electric vs gas and they are configured to maximize fuel savings.
Are you sure about that? How is it a hybrid if you can't plug it in? Wireless charging?
I can't argue with that. Luckily, Mitsubishi has a 10 year, 160,000 KM warranty that gives me peace of mind. I'll sell it/trade it in well before that.
It's green and for the climate, okay. lol
Let's see how long that "temporarily" lasts.
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Let's see how long that "temporarily" lasts.
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Exactly this for hybrids. A friend who is a mechanic said he never touched any hybrids because he didn't want something to happen to the car again only to be blamed because he did a simple service call on it or whatever.
He stays away from hybrids.
Are you serious? You don't know the difference between a hybrid and a PHEV do you?
Remember this? lol Not the first time either, meaning the repair cost.
Elon sold a bill of shit. I loved the pitch about having techs coming to your house, blah, blah, blah. So what about now, since there are more sucke, I mean Tesla owners on the road, does that mean a lot longer wait times for tech to arrive and trouble shoot your car?
Like I said, glorified smartphone on wheels.
Elon sold a bill of shit. I loved the pitch about having techs coming to your house, blah, blah, blah. So what about now, since there are more sucke, I mean Tesla owners on the road, does that mean a lot longer wait times for tech to arrive and trouble shoot your car?
Like I said, glorified smartphone on wheels.
I have friends who like you have either a hybrid or fully electric and rave about their EVs. Although all have 1 or more gas vehicles, they can go either way when needed.
No, I didn't. My mistake. I just educated myself, thank you for pointing out my ignorance.
Not a good look when a dealerships aren't interested in them. Here's an owner of a dealership explaining why.
Some of the comments are good as well.
What ever the government tells you to do ignore them and do the opposite and you won't go far wrong.
It's like buying a car with a shrinking fuel tank.
A friend of mine bought an EV. After five years the battery went kaput. The company quoted him €20k to replace his battery. Also prior to breaking down totally, the range was down to 100 kilometres per charge.
Some of the comments are good as well.
What ever the government tells you to do ignore them and do the opposite and you won't go far wrong.
It's like buying a car with a shrinking fuel tank.
A friend of mine bought an EV. After five years the battery went kaput. The company quoted him €20k to replace his battery. Also prior to breaking down totally, the range was down to 100 kilometres per charge.
Government isn't about to remove any taxes.I admit the luxury tax for a new vehicle really burns my ass!
It would be smart to remove the luxury tax from EVs to encourage more folks to buy more EVs.
Considering...
The Government of Canada collects about $5 billion per year in excise taxes on gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel as well as approximately $1.6 billion per year from GST revenues on gasoline and diesel (net of input tax credits). The Canada Revenue Agency, a part of the government, collects these taxes.
Collectively, the provincial governments collect approximately $8 billion per year from excise taxes on gasoline and diesel.
The federal taxes go into general coffers and help to fund a range of programs: $2 billion of the approximately $5 billion collected from federal excise taxes goes into the now permanent annual Gas Tax Fund for municipal infrastructure. Provincial tax revenues usually go to fund road repair and construction, and additionally in some provinces a portion of revenues (for example, 2 cents/litre in Ontario) is also distributed directly to municipalities.
It won't be long before governments start taxing EV owners to make up for lost revenue.
I've had my electric vehicle for two winters now. I drive mostly in the city anyways and it's been perfectly fine. Yes the overall range suffers but mine still gets me 350kms on like 80% charge in the winter. Now that it's warmer my range is back up to normal.
If I had a home charger it'll basically be no problems. EVs make sense for some people right now not yet ready to replace all gas vehicles.
Because murica doesn't like EVs they are a failure? There is an entire world out there where more and more people are buying EVs. Infrastructure is to blame and also there is a massive lobby behind cars and petroleum in North America. First they destroyed public transportation now they want to destroy EVs.
