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Lovely to hear! I hope it treats you well for many years to come

Genuinely, I think you're making a lot of false connections between phenomena here but I'd rather not get into it any longer

If you have genuine questions, I would love to help you learn. But I can tell you're making a lot of assumptions about how things work, and it's going to be difficult for me to figure out where you have gone down a line of thinking which is based on a false assumption.

...this is so not correct. I'm sorry but you are wrong about a lot of stuff. You have much to learn, and I hope you learn it.

But, bottom line, if you don't understand how your needs are exceptional and represent a very tiny slice of the population, please understand that right now. You are a super commuter. A great use case for an EV if you can charge it home, not so much if you can't.

Oh boy. Look, I'm going to have to be blunt here. You have a very poor understanding of charging EVs. For one, 480 volt chargers don't exist. That is not a thing. For two, if you're going to be charging a PHEV every day, and it won't be at home, what's the difference?

Like, seriously. This whole time I thought you were saying PHEVs were better than BEVs when what I'm hearing now is that you actually want to regularly charge your PHEV because it's cheaper than using gas. So what problem does a PHEV actually solve for you other than avoiding a few charge sessions?

Then why are you even interested in having an engine? You could just have more batteries and never have to pay for gasoline at all. This is what I was getting at with the whole "my parents bought a Chevy Bolt living in the middle of nowhere" thing.

Why do you think I have never been interested in anything Tesla's been doing? Anyway, you go ahead and keep on thinking this way. We'll let the market decide, and the trends are already pretty clear for those who are looking and not burying their heads in the sand

It remains utterly baffling to me that so many people look at today's landscape as if it's permanent

Now look, if you have to do a lot of road trips, electric cars are not a great experience yet. I've never pretended otherwise, though I still think people should do a holistic assessment of time spent charging and not knee-jerk it. But the Slate is doing exactly what you seem to want 👍

Cool, but you can't just wish inflation away. That's what gets me about your position. Electric cars used to have a significant price premium. Now they don't. It's not a gotcha that part of why they don't is because gas powered cars got more expensive. That's just how everything works.

Have you seriously not looked at prices lately? It sounds like you haven't looked at prices lately, or you still believe they're being subsidized despite the fact that they're not. You seem so confident yet don't seem to realize what targets are moving. Which is strange to me.

It's been pretty obvious forever to me that the expensive part of building a car is the car part. The second most expensive part is the drivetrain. An electric drivetrain is much simpler and cheaper to build. The battery pack is the only uniquely expensive part. And it gets cheaper by the day.

Okay. Still sounds very much to me like you found a guy who thought EVs were bad 10 years ago and are still listening to that guy even as the economic realities of battery manufacturing have shifted dramatically and show no signs of slowing down

This is why I think there's a lot of stuff you haven't thought through yet. DC fast charging is being deployed rapidly. Each year, electric cars come out which can charge faster and faster. So why should we continue to build engines when we have technological solutions right now?

Then I literally have no idea why your position is what it is. If you believe we are in a climate emergency, we need to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible. And if we want to be prescriptivist about it, I would say we should stop selling cars with engines.

I don't know how to explain to you how jumbled up your logic seems to be, so I'm just going to say... no. No

I think your information is very out of date at this point

I'm going to once again politely ask that you look at the Equinox EV and compare it to the price of the gasoline powered Equinox. It is actually much cheaper to build a car powered by a battery pack. And now that we're at ~$100/kWh the pack itself represents ~20% of the purchase price