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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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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
As EVs take hold, they will change the environment of how people see, service and use them. Of course this will take time. Just as the Mobile phone has developed from the "brick" to a hand held, wallet, filofax, diary, photo album camera and entertainment complex.In a couple of decades, we will look at a car differently. Its role in our society will evolve and we will adapt. Who uses a phone booth any more? How many people no longer have landlines?😷
@whowasthatmaskedman Yes, and every switch from gas to EV improves things just a tiny bit. Eventually we might even get things under control on the planet, but there will always be those that will claim global warming is a hoax. They will definitely take advantage of the improving planet environment and claim it as proof that EV is not needed. The general population are so easily manipulated by the oil industry.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@JamesBugman There are many steps still to be made.. Imagine an electric hybrid car with a hydrogen fuelled internal combustion engine for range. Or induction wired road sections that can recharge your car as you travel.😷
@whowasthatmaskedman The problem with hybrid is that you now have two systems you have to maintain, and two sources of energy to obtain. I know with hybrid gas/electric cars it won't run if there is no gas, and it won't run if there is no electricity, so you are stuck maintaining one more thing than a regular gas or electric vehicle. That is a lot of extra hassle to deal with.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@JamesBugman Yes. The car is changing. In time the way we use the car may change too. A car may be a shorter lived, cheaper, recyclable instrument you dont leave the suburban fringe with. I dont know..😷