I'm curious about this part. What's your climate like?

They should just preface the video with an non-skippable "advertisement" clip explaining a random logical fallacy in an entertaining way.

Education is the way out of this mess.

That's fine, you don't need to make those sacrifices.

Not much different than horse owners not wanting to sacrifice how they could ride a horse off road, and all those new fangled car drivers have to stick to prepared surfaces. Or how the cars can't jump obstacles or reproduce and make new cars.

I can tell you from personal experience though, the "sacrifices" for me quickly become routine and I realized how many sacrifices I was making by exclusively driving ICE vehicles. As I mentioned, I still have a gas car, and between the two, I opt to drive the EV whenever I possibly can (exceptions are when both my wife and I have to drive to different places).

It's funny because the sacrifices of owning an ICE are routine for ICE owners, and are easily forgotten (having to gas up at gas stations once a week, oil changes, oil filters, other fluid maintenance, not being able to warm the vehicle in your garage in the winter, having a cold car for 5 minutes until it warms up, troubles starting in the winter). But once these aren't part of your routine, you don't really want to go back so you can avoid the sacrifices that come with owning an EV.

It has really become an us vs. them concept for you. EV owners vs. ICE owners.

The thing you're forgetting is that all EV owners either have many years experience driving ICE vehicles or they still own a second vehicle that runs on gas (that's my situation). So, how could it be that with all their experience with BOTH vehicles, they have such a positive opinion of EVs and such a negative opinion of gas vehicles?

It's like the old linux vs. windows thing. Windows users almost never have experience with linux, but linux users almost always have experience with both. Who's opinions are more informed on the positive/negatives of the other system?

You don't have to be careful with how you charge it, just like how you don't have to be careful with how often you get an oil change. But smart owners do what they can to prolong their investment.

I don't think EVs are for you.

Not a terrible idea, but if you do that, you take away a driver's ability to use that extra range when they're doing a road trip.

Tesla offered a software limited version of their Model S for a while, which effectively did what you describe. Not sure if they still sell it though, the idea of buying a whole battery but not being able to use all of it when you needed to didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Interesting analogy.

If I had the choice between a phone that I could only charge every night at home, vs. one that I could never charge at home, personally I'd choose the one that I could charge at home while I'm sleeping. But let's say I had to choose the one that I couldn't charge at home but could only charge at hubs spread out across the city, I'd be the same as you and want it as highly charged as possible all the time.

I think your fear comes from being stuck in the mindset of needing to go to a gas station to get more fuel. Imagine instead you had a gasoline fuel line into your garage, and it automatically filled your tank every night while you're sleeping (if you could imagine that would be safe, lol). How often would you even THINK about a gas station if you always started your day with a full tank?

You're right, unforeseen events happen.

If that's a real concern for you, you just shouldn't get an EV. It's ok, the rest of the world will switch over.

Though, unforeseen events can happen any day, by definition. And gas cars don't have full tanks most days. It'd suck if you had an unforeseen event day on a day that you started with a quarter tank. By definition you're driving all over the place and you're not anywhere near your usual gas station. You're on E and need to refuel, but because most of the world has switched to EVs, you can't find a gas station nearby. While you're waiting for a tow truck, you'll be wishing you started your day with a full tank.

You don't want 100% all the time with a li-ion battery, you'll degrade the battery faster.

Figure out how many miles your "I need 100% all the time" is. Then add 25% to that number, and that's the range you should look for in an EV. (Better to add 66% to that number so that you can always keep the battery between 20% and 80%)

Or just don't get an EV if you can't handle the small change in your lifestyle.

You're thinking about this problem from the perspective of a gas car owner - who HAS to go to a gas station to fill'er up. Imagine every home had a gasoline line running to it the same as we have natural gas lines. Imagine you could fill up your tank every night while you're sleeping. How many gas stations would this setup put out of business across the country? Luckily, about 70% of the population live in their own homes and already automatically have the best charging option available to electric car owners - the plug on the wall in their own house.

When you leave your house with a full tank every morning, you only need a gas station on the few days a year that you'll burn through a half tank in one day. I'll say that again, think of how many days a year you fill up the tank, and before the end of the day you're down to a half tank. That cuts the required gas stations in the country down by, say, 98% (that'd be if average people spend 7 days of the year driving long distances - hanging out at destination doesn't count because you can charge there).

The reality is, for 70% of the population we don't need charging stations riddled everywhere, we only need them spread out across major routes.

I never actually predicted they would be free, but no matter. Businesses make regular investments to update or modernize themselves. For example, grocery stores will do re-organizations every few years. In my five years working at a grocery store when I was a kid, my store did it twice. Seemed expensive to have experts design a new layout plan, which included down to the inch placements of every product on every shelf. Then they had to pay all of us to take all the products off the shelves in an organized way and put them all back in their new locations. All while the store was closed and wasn't making money. They did a third change to layout the year after I left, this time a major one where they basically flipped what side of the store the deli was on and made a new room for the cash office. These changes required, you guessed it, electrical work. It's not unheard of for these large chain stores to reinvest in these kinds of upgrades. Canadian Tire, is a hardware/retail store, who's planning to do just that.

You're right, it'll cost money, but stores already reinvest their profits just like this for a chance to increase profits down the road. They probably wouldn't even need to close while the work is happening.

Despite the headline, your proof is more about how new production lines have kinks to be worked out, than it is that 'EVs require more repairs than ICEs'. The article even points out that older model EVs have high reliability:

*half the cost

That seems highly subjective to gas prices and electricity prices in their region. Which was never really stated in the article, but considering that they used the metric system, and the source of their fuel prices, this was based in Australia. Australia has notoriously high electricity prices. Not sure about their gas prices.

I'm also a happy Model 3 owner, and supercharging is about have the cost of gas in my area (Ontario, Canada).

Don't forget, not that long ago, no chargers existed.

They started by building more chargers that what were needed for the current EV population. More chargers can be built. And since they rely on an electrical grid that's already well established, they aren't hard to build either.

But you're right, people who live in apartments without their own laneway will not be able to switch over right away. But luckily, they don't make up most of the population and besides, these people tend to live within walking distance, biking distance or public transit distance to where they need to go.

I predict, though, that businesses, like grocery stores, hardware stores, malls, department stores, etc. - they'll all be motivated to install chargers in their parking lots to accommodate the apartment dwellers. Businesses already do as much as they can to keep customers in their stores longer. Having customers who are taking their time because their car is charging would be a boon for business.

No company will offer a warranty that it will need to repeatedly honor. Chances are, if it has a warranty, you won't need to invoke it.