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Electric vehicles compared to normal

So i dont know much about evs but i like the idea of charging a car and not paying for gas. Not like i can afford to buy a new car but it got me wondering like what are the benefits or disadvantages for each?

What do people prefer and why :)
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the one thing I haven't seen mentioned in any of the comments so far - you also have to be prepared for a big financial shift with EVs at some point. right now they're subsidized to some degree and have been getting away with operating on road infrastructure that was built for petrochemical powered vehicles (and thus mostly paid for by the taxes imposed on fuels for the same vehicles - usually in the range of about 50% of the cost of a unit of fuel). EVs have just as much impact on roads and infrastructure - sometimes much more as they tend to be significantly heavier than their chemical fuel counterparts. at some point that will have to change and either the price of infrastructure upkeep will be levied more fairly on EV operators or (more likely, because it's quite difficult to noninvasivly track just how much your vehicle is used on roads) there will have to be increases on electricity prices to cover the lost revenue for those costs.