Valid on having more charging accessibility for your phone than your car.Phone is a dumb argument. Could be completely dead, but 99% of the places I go (or while I'm going), I can charge it. Not so with the thing that is charging your phone.
As for plugging/unplugging.
1. Since I have almost 5 acres and park in more than one spot, that's a lot of outlets or dragging out decently heavy cords for upwards of 200 feet. So much for 8 seconds plugging in.
2. Same cords will get trashed if frozen to driveway and then I have to plow.
3. That means EVERY time I come home I plug in. Many times end up going out for "some" errand. Right now I only have to re-fuel once a week. I NEVER have to think about it, even slightly. ZERO planning........
4. Even if you have only 2 electrics parked side by side, you are going to be running over cords, or having to get out and move them. May sound sexist, but many woman are not going to give a crap their cord in is your way to park. Now if you have 5 cars all @ the end of the driveway, like my next door neighbor (3 driving age kids, and they NEVER leave home these days, apparently). What a friggin nightmare that is going to be with cords all over. I guess you can drive over them and eventually ruin them.
5. And the worst thing will be cheap relatives/friends who come over and hit you up for a cord. "hey, mind if a plug in for a bit". Of course, especially with relatives, hard to say no. But I'll be the nice guy that gives out 1000% more free electric, than I get back.
5.
Do you think your situation is the norm or the exception.
It sounds like you are claiming you are incapable of planning to keep one of your many spots on your 5 acres for a specific vehicle?
It also sounds like you would often forget to lock your car or your house when you leave, or roll up your windows when you get home, all about the same level of effort is grabbing a cord when you come home.
Or can't think of anyway to manage your electrical cords, I fell like i have seen a few mechanics shops figure this out
re #4 if you are suggesting every car is an EV for that many cars...we are thinking FAR into the future and who knows what charing that may hold. But thats about your only valid point in 1-5, manuevering around 4 cars in a single drive/garage would be a pain and i wouldn't recommend.
#5. I am assuming this is a joke, but similar to #4 implies Mass adoption which isn't the near term, and would suggest far better infrastructure or efficiencies where having to pick up a charge will either be the exception, or so cheap you really would care. but seriously. What about the golden rule. what kind a friend are you?
Let's be honest none of those are great excuses about why an EV wouldn't work for someone.
Tell me there isn't a charger within 10-15 miles of you and you travel 300 miles a day...maybe.
But those supposed "inconveniences" aren't really inconveniences as much as a slight change in behavior.
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