Contrived to the point of stupid so the point is lost.
Really, this could have just as well been written in the early 1900s with a moron buying a car when a perfectly good horse was available.
Two problems still exist with electric only cars they haven't shown are solvable. Truly fast charging and handling of that "damnit, the son forgot to plug the car in when he got home and I need to go to work/doctor/etc NOW" and lack of available charging for large number of potential drivers. Want to be silly like the article, don't get snowed in without power for days on end that still happens in North America.
As for repair shops at dealers, well being able to have your car repaired and serviced anywhere is a good thing. Just happens that Tesla does its best to hide the service issues by keeping it mostly internal.
So yeah electrics are cool, leaning towards a ER EV myself simply because I have to travel on my schedule and not my cars
It's not contrived. All the points you mentioned about the downsides of EV are true. That's why they're a single digit percentage of the market right now at best.
The point of this article is to point out the compromises that we are currently making. They're invisible to us because they are the compromises we have been making for generations. I can imagine a 538 article that illustrates how much land we allocate to gas stations using several graphs. For some people that article will be interesting. Other people's eyes will glaze over. This kind of article uses humor to make the same point.
I don't own an electric vehicle. I'm very aware of the advantages of electric vehicles for society at large, but reading about how funny it is to not be able to store things in the front of the car made me realize how much of a feature that really would be. Reading about his concern that an gasoline powered car is less safe because you have a giant engine in front of you made sense to me in a way I previously hadn't thought about.
He didn't even make a bunch of other points that I often think about - like the level of soot in cities. Our children will probably look back at us the way we look back at London in 1850 shrouded in coal dust.
You just barely missed the point of the article. They are parodying the EV reviews that "could have just as well been written in the early 1900s with a moron buying a car when a perfectly good horse was available."
I could be wrong about this, but I think it is referring to a specific review of a Tesla test-drive from a few years back. It doesn't seem quite so contrived with that in mind, and the point is also more clear.
Really, this could have just as well been written in the early 1900s with a moron buying a car when a perfectly good horse was available.
Two problems still exist with electric only cars they haven't shown are solvable. Truly fast charging and handling of that "damnit, the son forgot to plug the car in when he got home and I need to go to work/doctor/etc NOW" and lack of available charging for large number of potential drivers. Want to be silly like the article, don't get snowed in without power for days on end that still happens in North America.
As for repair shops at dealers, well being able to have your car repaired and serviced anywhere is a good thing. Just happens that Tesla does its best to hide the service issues by keeping it mostly internal.
So yeah electrics are cool, leaning towards a ER EV myself simply because I have to travel on my schedule and not my cars