You must have really driven a golf cart, as what you describe is nowhere near the real EV experience.

You’re comparing a 2nd hand car to a new EV? Then yes the initial coat is higher, of course. While the 1968 Ford Galaxy is a marvel to behold, it doesn’t compare to modern ICE cars. Even the base VW Golf has better specs… But I digress… Cars like that are the reason we need EVs if we want to control climate change. The amount of CO2 that baby expells is just way of the charts…

Is electricity cheap? No. But I would be more interested to see how much kW/h your AC unit is using. And how much gallons per mile you’re consuming. That is the only valid comparison to make here. And I would seriously encourage you to look at heat pumps.

EVs are good for people who actually look at cars and who know about cars. Not people who are dinosaur guzzling go-carts prejudiced.

in the States you can sometimes go miles in between homes

Is that supposed to be a lot? The average electric scooter can go 10s of miles these days. The average American lives in the suburbs and drives around 40 miles a day if they commute, which is becoming less common with work from home. While almost every climate report says we need to bring that number down, even if we don't evs can easily handle that. Most pure evs coming out these days have at least a 200 mile range and even a lot of plug in hybrids can handle 40 miles . As for charging installation you can plug a level 1 charger into any old outlet at night and have it charged up for the commute by the morning. You only have to pay for installation if you want level 2 or 3.

Evs work well for the average American. It may make long distance road trips a bit harder but maybe adding a bit more friction on that could be a good thing as it would encourage us to build out more of our abysmal rail system, because current American driving habits are unsustainable.

As an european I'm baffled with your numbers. You pay monthly what I pay yearly in electricity, and your gas bill seems insane too

I agree and disagree with you. My wife owns an Ionic 5 and I drive a '14 Z51 Vette M7. Other than WY her car does fine for long range it just takes longer. But we drive it for 4-6 days at a time between charging.

I'd rather drive my Vette most times but in traffic and long road boring road trips her car is really nice to drive.

We live in CO and the car does better in the hills/ mountains than the flats for range when using one pedal driving.

As long as an ICE meets modern EPA standards a used car is almost always (not really big trucks like 350s and so on) better total impact than any new car including an EV.

They're only impractical if you want them to be.

I have a 55 chevy that runs on gasoline. It's so annoying having to go the gas station every other day I drive it. It's almost like I spend my driving time going to gas stations. I couldn't imagine trying to drive this thing to California, half my trip would be at gas stations. Thankfully though I can charge an EV from house and/or at work. No inconvenient stopping at over priced gas stations every other day.

See, you can make anything look bad IMO. I'm a car guy, I daily one of two 11 second cars. I'm not an idiot, EV is coming and it's the future. I'm fine with it really, ever ride in dual motor model 3 or a 90+ S? They fly, and they don't pollute which is good for you know, saving the planet. I'll always have a hotrod or two, but I'm down with EV swapping something fun. I'd own a Tesla but I refuse because of the asshat running that company.

My electric car's payment (Nissan Leaf) is less than I spent per month on gas for my Acura RDX (which got about 24mpg - surely better than a 68 Galaxie). The change in my electric bill is noise compared to weather variations. The car really feels like driving for free. I am in Texas, so electricity is cheap (unreliable, but cheap) to the point where solar panels don't make financial sense. Our temperature is regularly over 100F in the summer (only 100F today), the air conditioner in the car does as well as the Acura's.

The Leaf is our preferred car for virtually every trip. We drive our ICE on long trips or rent. The cost savings alone justify the Leaf. The environmental and noise savings are just gravy.

I don't normally bite but so much of this is wrong.

American here... If you never leave like a 40 mile radius of your home, and you don’t live in a location that sees extreme temperatures, and you don’t live in a hilly or rural area, they’re probably fine.

I work in agriculture and drive 120+ miles most days for work in very rural parts of the Southeast USA in my EV, and this summer the temperatures have been around to 100F with high humidity almost every day. I exclusively charge at home with the free level 2 charger that came with my car.

“I cut my gas expenses by going electric,”

CA seems to be an anomaly, but here gas was $3.44/gal this morning, electricity is ~$0.10/kwh. For my normal operations in my Honda accord, my weekly gas cost for work is ~$60. That same travel comes out to ~$15 in electricity, for a yearly saving of $2000+ in the EV. My electric bills have largely born this out. Additionally, in my area a new Chevy Bolt was the second cheapest vehicle with a warranty--a used mazda 3 with ~5k miles left on the warranty was $400 cheaper. The home charger came free with the purchase, so if you're looking at cars with warranties (which many people without the time/skill/space to work on their own vehicles are) there are EVs that are hands-down cheaper to buy and run, and it's not close.

Good for people that don’t care about cars and don’t travel much, but impractical for most people, IMO.

Road trips aren't as good (except in a Tesla imo), but there's very few advantages irl of modern gas cars over comparable modern EVs. Hell, my bolt, currently the cheapest EV on market (well, now discontinued), has most of the same performance specs as my '01 3-series BMW: same 0-60, same turn radius, same stopping distance, lighter with a similar center of gravity. The BMW is more fun out in the country (can't beat the feel of a perfect manual shift), but the bolt easily beats the Honda which is the actual market-class comparison, and on crowded roads with merging the instant acceleration is a huge bonus.

That is a fantastic ride! Growing up my mom has a white Galaxies 500 with blue interior. It was an amazing car.

My wife used to live in a place called Tennant Creek (Australia) which is a days drive from the closest city Darwin. No EV vehicle can reach there, let alone come back.

I support EV vehicles, they are extremely promising but more advancements are required before they can outright replace the combustion engine.