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Buy an EV today

From the outside the car looks like most cars you see on the road. It has a few telltale signs of what it is, if you know what to look for.
For one, there is no muffler on the back. There is no muffler because there is no exhaust, none, zero.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Like the bicycle you have at home, you pull it out, and go for a ride. With a bicycle power comes from your legs.
With this car, power comes from a battery. The emissions are the same, in fact, after a "ride" the car doesn't stink like B/O.
Wireless remote lets you open the door. No big deal, all modern cars have that. Car won't start without it. The difference is in an EV
you push the start button to start it and it is completely silent, where in a typical gas car you turn a key and listen to the starter motor try to combine air and gas to generate compression that pushes pistons and squirts out toxic fumes.
This is another interesting point. In an EV when you hit start there are no sounds, none, zero. The motor doesn't "start" it is just ready to go.
All the lights come on, the stereo, the heat (or A/C) is instantly there. You don't have to wait for the motor to heat up to warm the car.
Heated seats, heated steering wheel. It even has cooling seats, great for Summer.
You can heat the car from inside the house, or the cafe, or the gym, using an app on your phone. You can schedule a time for it to heat up in the morning, say you like to depart at 7am every day, so you set it to heat up for that time. It only takes a few minutes because the heat is instant. Defogs the windows too. Car is ready when you get inside. Hit start, put it in drive and off you go. Nothing to warm up.
When you are driving, every time you hit the brakes you notice the range goes up, this is because the wheels have power generators in them to charge the battery. You can set the level of recharge from 0 (off) to 3. 3 is the maximum recharge and with that you really notice when you take your foot off the gas how quickly the car slows down (and charges up).
If you have ever ridden a motorcycle, or a car with a standard transmission, you know what it is like to gear down and let the gears slow the car. In a standard transmission car you rarely need to apply the brakes. EV has this same thing, only it is not the transmission that slows the car, but the regen, and every time it does it you gain more distance. Isn't that smart. You can drive without using the brakes which saves brake pads, also the brake lights come on when this happens so you won't get rear ended so easily like in your standard transmission car.
The car is silent to drive, feels solid, fast. There are no gears to shift, no clutches, no transmission. It is just linear power right up onto the highway.
It has electric everything, including blind spot monitoring, lane assistance (if you cross a line you shouldn't it warns or may adjust your steering), backup camera.
Think of it like a cell phone with wheels, you sit in it and it is loaded with apps all over the place.
And the best part is, you drive past all gas stations, never needing to fill up, and that is a big F/U to Rump and his oil obsession buddies. This is the future, the future of planet earth. Don't listen to the silly nonsense of the gas and oil industry, these cars are amazing.

Buy your EV today, you will be super happy you did.
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Perry1968 · M
Everyone to thier own but i dont like them due to the fact that if you live in residential areas and cannot find a parking space outside your home then theres no charging it at home. They are super heavy causing damage to roads. Wear out tyres quicker. Theres advantages and disadvantages to both i guess.
@Perry1968 The EV does weigh about 20% more than a gas car, but both run on rubber tires so there would be no more wear on roads from EV. In future though as battery tech continues to improve I foresee a massive weight reduction from EV. Liquid Gas is extremely heavy to tow around and that is unlikely to improve.
I can't think of many areas where there is not a space to park your car with access to an electric plug, but I suppose .00001% of housing is like this somewhere. ;)
Perry1968 · M
@JamesBugman Lol. You should live here. You have access to charge but never enough time before and after work to sit for a charge. Most of the housing here is extremely difficult to park outside your own home. I personally have a drive but until the new price of these vehicles drop and the battery tech improves then i ll stick with petrol. But yes id imagine the future holds much better battery tech. Question is that if everyone owns one, is the infrastructure able to handle it?
@Perry1968

They are super heavy causing damage to roads

FYI:
A single 80,000-pound semitruck can cause roughly 2,500 times more
road damage than a 4,000-pound sedan.

(which is just common sense)
Perry1968 · M
@ThirstenHowl Yes but you wouldnt eat. Have all the luxuries around you without a semi. You will without a electric car.
@Perry1968 They have electric semi's now too. Even driverless ones. lol.
Perry1968 · M
@JamesBugman In comparison to the logistal side of things globally less than 0.5 % The future will change that though once the trucks can do the mileage. I doubt they.ll unload themselves for a few years yet though. Lol