EVs have massively less brake wear because most braking is regen, not friction.
Then there is the whole cooling system too. Radiator, fluids, pump. Fuel pump and filter too.
It's not just the cost either, it's the hassle and time wasted getting it done. You can include diversions to get fuel too, since you can't make it at home.
Have you actually been to Europe with an EV? France, for example, is great. Loads of chargers, no effort. There is a guy on YouTube who does regular trips from the UK to Italy in a budget used EV and has no issues, if you want to see forn yourself.
Sorry but your country is apparently shit tier when it comes to infrastructure.
Data goes stale fast though.
Don't they have anything like GDPR to deal with hoarding info?
It constantly amazes me how shit basic infrastructure is in the US. In Europe there is a land rush to get chargers in, and they are already everywhere.
Or if you have solar.
You aren't factoring in all the other maintenance a fossil needs too. Brakes, fluids, belts, gearbox, exhaust, filters, all sorts of crap.
Why is electricity so expensive there? Here you can get a cheap overnight rate that is about 0.1USD/kWh.
Trump is stealing Venezuela's oil. It's not going to get more expensive, although it might affect other things.
How come Ford can't make it work, when Rivian can?
There are some Chinese trucks that seem pretty good, but of course you aren't allowed to buy them.
You need a network to generate and deliver it. Storage.
Recycling of plastics, well at least the viability of recycling most plastics back into useful stuff, is the biggest lie of the century.
Not entirely.
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At the moment, sorted natural HDPE fetches something like £550 per tonne, whereas the harder to recycle ones (PTT), you have to pay to dispose of. The prices do reflect how recyclable and how value the recycled product is, because the default is incineration at -£110 per tonne.
Under the WHO, Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered obese while he was in his prime.
Yeah every internet basement nerd is one of the 5% for whom BMI doesn't work, not the 95% it does. Mysteriously you have the body of a roided out genetic freak who spends 8 hours a day in the gym.
And there's a reason you guys don't change it
Mostly we have. The weights and measures act came in in my lifetime. I've seen stuff go from mostly imperial to mostly metric.
However, unlike Europe, it has no authority at all to ban its use.
Good grief, it's not banned here. You're allowed to use it, but you cannot use it exclusively for trade units. You can even use it in business. Machinemart still stubbornly insists on selling compressors using HP for the motor and CFMs for the airflow exclusively. Not illegal, just annoying because literally the only thing useful you can do with HP is convert to Watts, and almost none of my vendors of air parts bother quoting CFM because it's so rarely used.
But it's not banned.
Given this was the case when we were in the common market and customs union, I know it's not banned in the EU either. i.e. don't just make shit up because you feel like it.
If you want to go this route:
Nice deflection. More advanced tech exists than Apollo, some of it is outside America and beyond what America can do and is made with metric units. IOW, your "Apollo therefore imperial fuck yeah" argument is invalid.
Airliners aren't really advanced in anything.
You don't understand the difference between avionics and aeronautics, huh. Also, hell yes they are.
True, but the supply issues mean BEV is a better option.
It obviously depends how big the battery is, but they don't need to do all their driving on it. Just enough that they see the cost savings and ideally get to see how convenient charging is.
It also helps them fix their understanding of distance. In my experience most people over-estimate distances by about 100%, so think battery range is less than it really is. Back in the day people would ask if I could get to the next city over in my Leaf, which was 22 miles away.
I see hybrids as a way to convince sceptics. Once they find they are mostly using the battery anyway, and especially with a PHEV where they get used to charging it, next time they might just go electric only and enjoy those benefits too.
No oil, no belts, no gearbox, no fluids, no spark plugs, no alternator, no radiator and pump, very little brake wear... They realize what a pointless load of effort the ICE part is.
Fossil fuel trucks lower local air quality.
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do.
