That's way more likely to drive you back into drinking.

I have personal experience with a 2007 Camry that would constantly shut the engine down hard from an evap leak. Like literally you would be driving along at 100km and it would be lugging because the engine was shutting down. We fixed that, but the engine light is still on permanently.

But that's just got to be a spare tyre that you give back eventually? It's not safe to have three half worn Tyres and one new one. That's meant to get to the garage to fix the tyre. So you wouldn't want to buy a tyre from then because that would be a waste after yours is fixed. Unless the tyre couldn't be fixed, but then you would have to buy three tyres to match the one you got from the service.

If the apology was made with grace I would have accepted it with grace.

I was thinking you could use this on Trump and not see the difference.

Well you had to mooch of your friend for one thing. I wouldn't do that, I would go find a charger. Electricity may not be as expensive as gas but it's not free either. Did you go to restaurants with chargers instead of going where you wanted? Did you stay at hotels with chargers instead of staying where you wanted? Did you have to plan your route somewhat beforehand? Were you carrying pets and needed to stop for them on top of charging? If you were at your friends and you decided you wanted to drive up to Canada, how easy would that have been. No matter what, you can not drive as far in an 8-12 hour day as your can with an ICE and these are the binds that people don't want.

There is usually a gas station on the way.

But it kind of requires a crystal ball.. because I don't know on any given night if there will be some emergency requiring the use of my vehicle.

So... As per my comment, you would be one of the people who just doesn't have a use that exceeds what an EV will do.

So you are assuming it would be easy for me if it is easy for you?

And if that works for you that's great. When I travel we pack a lunch and I switch off with my wife. The bathroom break is not much longer than it takes to fill with gas and the only other stops are at dog parks.

You are saying that it is realistic to have enough solar panels and batteries to run a tractor through dirt for a full day of plowing and then need able to charge to 100% at night? What if it's cloudy? As if that wasn't dubious enough, when it is harvest time the farmers go 24/7 until it's done.

No, but that doesn't change the fact that I want to be able to use it. That's the point of owning a personal vehicle.

I define TCO as all costs for the car included. The up front price of the car, the interest for the loan, the insurance and running costs.

So it's like an extra tax then. You could say income tax is a net win if you look at it that way.