EVs do just great in the rain. It's not like it rains and then they suddenly burst into flame. How many fires after the last Florida hurricane? The same handful reported on Fox News over and over.

Six EV fires for Hurricane Helene. https://www.myfloridacfo.com/n...

Meanwhile, 93 vehicle fires in one county alone. https://b17news.com/viral-vide...

All those announcements and news stories, but it looks like the officials never followed up with final numbers. I wonder why. Doesn't fit the narrative.

I don't care about headlines. Headlines are always about what sells. Reality and headline news narratives are usually only tangentially related.

EVs catch on fire less often than ICEVs. Plenty of statistics to back that up. EVs are safer, faster, more efficient, and less polluting overall. This includes somewhat increased particulates from tire wear. People like to compare to hybrids, but hybrids add more weight, which also adds more particulates. Even more importantly, a bit of regulation and we'll have safe tires.

Some moron posted about how new ICEVs don't have emissions anymore. I suggest he suck on a tailpipe for a few minutes and let us know how it goes.

There are EV fires, yes. Lithium ion fires can be hard to put out, yes.

Here's a list of car transport fires: https://gcaptain.com/a-brief-l...

Generally, the message is that sometimes there is speculation that EVs started the fires, but when things get traced to actual causes, it's usually not EVs that started the fires.

There are plenty of well-founded statistics out there showing that EVs are far less likely to catch on fire than ICEVs.

But the Luddite/lying brigade are strong here.

Unlike evil Google, Apple is all about my privacy. I heard this over and over. Advertising like this? Oh, that's no privacy violation. It's just an assfuck.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/...

They don't care.

Not sure why. I think most of the people left here are married with kids.

Nobody half smart has done layaway since probably the 1980s.

I stuck my worm in your mom's ass. Are we even?

Anybody? Anybody?

Use hydrocarbons until battery tech is good enough.

Lots of local numbers route to large companies with call centers. It kills small local businesses.

EVs are far more efficient than ICEV. They have far less of a carbon impact, and this goes many times over if your source of energy is green. And this includes the impacts of battery production. And this gets better as battery production increases.

Synthetic fuels? They have two primary use cases:
1. When an oil-poor nation is at war.
2. When the fossil fuel industry wants to keep ass-fucking the world.

Is your use case 1 or 2?

If you are not 1 and you find 2 distasteful but you still want synthetic fuels, you're a culture war loser.

Right now, at this moment, hybrids are somewhat nice in the US because the US has done a shit job of building electric car infrastructure, and because everything is so fucking spread out, and because our mass transit is a steaming pile of dog shit. My apologies to dogs. We're so bogged down in building codes and authority and the bureaucratic state that we cannot get shit done, and the hair-transplant orange motherfucker who is willing to tear down the bureaucracy is so focused on culture war issues, he can't even build a Duplo Lego set while snorting Adderall.

Hybrids are a half-assed solution. Let's carry additional wait and add complexity, but let's not solve the overall issue with a simpler solution. You still need oil changes. You still need to stop at gas stations. You're carrying extra weight.

That said, there are fewer options in EV than in hybrid and gas, so hybrid and gas can make sense if you, say, want a small pickup truck, need to actually haul heavy stuff for great distances, or want to go around a racetrack all day. If you have a 150 mile commute each way, for some insane reason. These are edge cases. In day to day driving, with a bit of basic wiring for anybody with their own parking spot, EVs are superior. And you can always rent a car if you want to drive 2000 miles in a long trip. It's too bad you'll not be able to take a train in America. You'd think we'd have figured this shit out by now.

The fact that EVs are dramatically faster and significant safer (fewer fires and fewer fatalities, except perhaps for the Nazitruck) should probably also figure in here somewhere.

We're quoting the Robb Report here? Suck my fucking dick, /. News for douches. Propaganda that matters.

Cause this shit ain't going to last. With Trumpkins cutting off the science funding, we're just gonna get another year or two of breakthroughs before the well dries up. Hopefully all the scientists going to other countries will do good work. My PhD cousin is looking for his postdoc 100% outside of America.

Amen!

I spawned almost the comments. And nobody gives a fuck. I was right.