Wired Magazine: You don't need a powerful EV anyway
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A soy latte sipping urbanite talks about how you don't need to go further than a few miles because things you need just appear in store and why would you ever want to leave your shit-covered bughive?
It's like you didn't even need to read the ragebait to know.
It also mentions power, and how the battery is the heaviest part. This is used as an excuse to lower the power and range, because you deserve the bughut.
Yeah, I skimmed the beginning. I caught the bit where the bugman talks about how these cars do 0-60 in 3 seconds and 400 miles per charge, quietly ignoring the fact that they don't do both at the same time. There's a reason why every time I see a Tesla around here, a car more expensive than probably 99% of passenger cars in the country, it's in the right lane tailgating a truck at 90 kph.
I fucking called this, years ago.
You lure idiots in with comparable range. Then you tell them they don't actually need that, and shrink it, and shrink it, and shrink it. Boom, freedom of transportation, gone.
EVs were already a threat, since electricity is more centralized and harder to store than gasoline, and it takes longer to charge an EV than to fill up a tank. Even the EVs that were 'comparable' to a gas car gave the owner much less agency than the gas car would.
If I ever need to extend my range in my car I just fill up a couple of jerry cans and pop 'em in the trunk, not like I can just pop a few extra batteries in my Tesla when I need to travel outside of charging station range.
They weigh over a thousand pounds and have a tendency to turn into dirty bombs when improperly handled.
Actually, are we producing enough EVs?
They also cost $10k and not $20 empty.
Except that they're saying this now when most people don't have electric cars. All you have is California's mandate which is a pipe dream. I'm guessing the EPA will be how they try to force it on the whole country, so kneecapping that agency should be a priority.
I like nothing better than weirdos telling me what I do or do not "need".
Classic bait-and-switch though. First force everyone over to an electric car, saying that the batteries are big enough not to inconvenience you. Then the big battery isn't necessary after all.
"What need one?"
Fuck you Wired. I need to be able to reliably drive 200+ miles through the cold at least once a month.
Conde Nast, man
Fully in on clown world
These are the same people that tell you to "follow the science" when you question their directives on gender "affirming" treatment, "climate change" or covid vaccinations.
They could just save time and go straight to "Look, you weren't using your civil liberties anyway, and it's far more efficient for local government if you don't have any, so we're going to repeal them..."