Sure, it maybe takes longer on a long road trip, but I do one, maybe two of these a year. The other 99% of the time I'm charging exclusively at home.

How often do you have to go to the gas station to fill your tank in a given month, and how long does it take each time? I'd bet you spend way more time doing that in a year than I spend charging on a road trip.

Then you have to take time every so often to get an oil change. Spark plugs. Transmission fluid.

I really can't find any advantages an ICE has oven an EV these days.

I installed my own charger. Took about 10 mins.

I'm currently on a long trip in my EV right now (across the US). It doesn't take that much longer. I can charge from 20-80% in roughly 18-20 mins. Not much longer than the breaks I would take in my ICE car back in the day.

My car was about the same price as a comparable ice.

Got any other misconceptions to clear up?

So I'll bite, what do you feel the weak benefits and disadvantages are of EVs? As an EV owner for the past 3 years, I've only encountered strong benefits and very few disadvantages.

How does the extreme downforce fan handle ingestion of rocks and pieces of asphalt that are found on typical road surfaces?

Got it, so according to that article, roughly 2023 is when they did their trip. From the data I've found, there were ~32k DC fast chargers available in the US in July 2023 (this figure doesn't include L2 chargers). In July 2026, this number has more than doubled to ~74k.

In other words, sure, go back some years, and the charging network had issues. But in the meantime, people have taken steps to resolve it, and it is no longer an issue for the vast majority of the country.

How long ago was this? Because if it is more than a few years ago it is way out of date. Or the auto exec is just an idiot since I had the opposite experience.

I charged at zero Tesla stations (had a CCS plug at the time) and had zero problems. I used the Electrify America network almost exclusively on the trip (since I had free charging through them). In more rural areas, the EA stations frequently were located in Walmart parking lots or with Caseys gas stations. As I got towards the eastern part of the US, they were more frequently near malls or in grocery store parking lots.

I'm curious -- what gaps do you feel we have in the US in our charging infrastructure? I have an EV and I've so far never experienced any gaps. My last 2 long road trips last year were each ~3000 miles round-trip and I went through some pretty sparsely populated states and I never had any issues charging my EV.

I'd guess theres plenty of that on Fetlife around here...

Hint: look up the wavelength blocking properties of CO2 and then realize that long-wave and short-wave IR has different wavelengths.

Sure, the World Cup visitors had good things to say about their visit to the US. But liking place you're visiting and wanting to live there are two completely different things. And the reality of living in the US is very different than 'ooh they have nice people, cool stadiums, and Buccees'.

I mean maybe for the initial test drive what you say is true, but you should absolutely take the vehicle you're buying for a test drive before you sign any purchase agreement. Once that agreement is signed, the vehicle is yours and any problems/flaws in the vehicle are now yours to take care of.

Really? Look at the Amish? Assuming they do have lower rates of disease, do you really think the only difference between the Amish and the rest of society is the rate they use preventive medicine?

The Republic/Monarchy binary split you mention doesn't even make sense though. There are many other types of governments that don't fall under those two categories, e.g., dictatorship, tribalism, democracy, oligarchy, theocracy. So why are you artificially restricting the question to two choices?

Sure, they can't repossess a degree, but thats why student loans are very difficult to discharge even in bankruptcy, so the are pretty much guaranteed to be paid at some point.

False. Batteries these days are seeing minimal degradation after 100-200k miles.