Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

There are couple of problems with EVs:

• they lack any aesthetic (at least vast majority), they look like a toy or a modern appliance, plastic and cheap
• they feel like ‘go from A to B’, soul-less
• they have a constant uplink to a cloud with telemetry of my every move and every fart with no option to opt-out
• no fucking physical buttons (some of them are just now pulling they head out their asses and reverting the design choice)
• expensive, paying premium price for cheap feel
• we don’t really know how (un)reliable they are (there are a lot of new brands and new models)
• infrastructure not ready in a lot of countries, and if you’re living in an apartment building without a parking garage or charger nearby you’re fucked

Other than that, yeah, they might be superior to an ICE cars.

Ps. I wouldn’t be caught dead in Tesla. Fuck Mussk

I like electric cars, they’re not for me I personally hate modern cars looks, computerisation, screens, and lack of any discernible personality, but the more people who own EVs, the longer I will be able to keep running my ICE car.

I do realise I’m a luddite, but I see vehicles as more than just a tool for travelling from one point to another- which EVs are great for- and more of a symphony of engineering to create something that has a distinct personality, every engine drives slightly differently and I think that is much more engaging than what is possible with EVs. (I do think the fake gear changes in cars like the Ioniq 5n are a bit silly as they’re not necessary)

I don’t know actual numbers but my physics teacher said that he’d worked out that his car which had almost 400,000 miles on it had just about created the same amount of CO2 emissions in its use as it had in its creation but regardless of whether he was correct I think there’s something to be said for not constantly replacing cars and keeping existing ones running as long as possible, there’s a lot of materials that go into producing a car that are at best environmentally expensive to recycle.

We had electric cars before ICE cars. The first car was electric.

You know what horse can do that no car, electric or not, can do?

You can get on a horse, or horse-drawn carriage, completely wasted drunk out of your mind, or high, or just too tired to drive. Tell horse “home” and he will go to the stable he came from, dragging you with it all the way.

Horses consume no gasoline, no diesel, they just eat literal grass and drink tap water. And their shit is often packaged and sold as fertilizer.

How the fuck in the times of high energy prices, both gas and electricity, people are not just turning back to horses is beyond me. Horses are economically viable and sound, just grab the horses from working type, not sport type. Smarter than AI, calmer than Trump (and more reasonable), grass-to-fertilizer converter, biological motorbike.

Only inbreds hate EVs.

Normal people simply hate tesla.

Electric cars are great, but I’ll be dead before you catch me in one made by any major corp. I’d rather build my own than buy their crap.