Whether you’re an electric vehicle supporter or not, there’s no denying they’re becoming more popular, and more widely produced by the day. Almost every major automobile manufacturer has, or is coming out with, an electric vehicle. And, if not fully electric, at least partially.
Do you think the next passenger vehicle you buy will be electric? What about an RV? Hey, never say never. Those are a thing these days too, and getting more popular as we type this!
Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section below the poll. Thanks! (And may we remind you, please leave politics out of your comment. Thank you.)
Ever notice that every world leader that is pushing for you to buy an EV doesn’t own one? (Note I never mentioned any political party I’m talking about all of them).
Politically correct at work. Dreamed up by people who have no clue about the head to tail of anything.
The Globalist are just pushing their agenda. It doesn’t matter to them if it will benefit society.
Follow the money.
The large number of responders who say “no” could be in for a rude awakening. We really have no clue as to the future availability of fossil fuels or governmental decrees. While my first inclination was to say “no,” I voted “maybe/maybe not” for the above reasons. Personally, I wish someone would develop an electric vehicle powered by a fuel cell……no distance restrictions and no pollution.
Which is exactly why we should be building nuclear power plants at a rate of 20 per year for the next 10 years.
100% agree!
I probably won’t be getting one anytime soon. I don’t know about most people but when I read stories about how much a battery costs for some electric cars, it instantly stops any thought of trying one.
In many cases the technology is lagging behind the needs of some segments of the markets. For a many folks electric cars make sense. For those that need a vehicle for long distances or heavy loads the battery technology and safety are not there yet. Issuing mandates based on the assumption that the technology will safely find a way to meet those mandates is poor leadership.
Not enough capacity to go somewhere. If staying in town, OK, but we travel and won’t even get me to my sisters, 360 miles away.
Carbon foot-print is way too high. wonder why gas prices are so high? Building electric grid for EV’s.
Gas prices have always gone up and down. Right now gas by me is 2.48 – 2.52 a gal. Not great but, a lot better than it it was a few weeks ago. Our Electric bill has gone up and they added new surcharges to pay to “fix” the grid. If you do the math, they are making a billion dollars in 3 months, and they say they still can’t fix the grid.
The vast destruction of the environment, lives and communities from the mining of the heavy metals and lithium needed for the batteries is heartbreaking. It’s ignored because it’s not our children Ron with horrific birth defects, it’s not our land destroyed by mining waste or our families used in forced labor, slave labor or physically damaged because of lack of environmental laws. Yes much of the mining is ethically managed but far to much is doing the very thing these politicians say electric vehicles are supposed to solve. Turning a blind eye makes them partners in these horrific crimes. Blood diamonds are a minor offense compared to this.
Lithium batteries in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and all kinds of regular batteries commonly used like AA, AAA, C, D, 9 volt.
Let me know when the first 2,000 lb vehicle that runs on AAA Lithium batteries is available with 1 mile of range and an air conditioner, let alone 300 miles of range. You kind of reinforce James’ point.
watch that baby burn when the salt spray from a winter treated road hits it…
Mining for lithium – don’t many say the same for drilling for oil and the oil spills are killing our environment? Same was said for coal. Also said for mining for diamonds. It seems that anytime a human turns over a rock, we are screwing with the environment. We are humans. We explore and invent in order to survive. If we don’t disrupt one thing we will disrupt another. When the sun starts to burn out, solar panels will be blamed for sucking out all of its energy. I’m not defending – just saying….
👍👍 Have a good afternoon/evening, Kelly. 😀 –Diane
That’s funny. Solar panels draining the sun. Oh my goodness that’s funny KellyR. LOL. 🤣😂🤣😂
There are things that I do take seriously but I don’t make them the focal point of my life because I do want a life. I am often accused by being too middle of the road. By driving down the middle of the road, I seem to make both the left and right lanes swerve further to their side of the road. Oh, maybe it is my fault that they become far left and far right. Nahh – it’s no fun coloring between the lines,.
Next vehicle will be a hybrid at best. No pure EV has the combination of range and rapid charging to meet the needs of the distances we travel.
The infrastructure in the bulk of America cannot support this pie in the sky dream.
I said ‘No’ because, 1) I can’t/wouldn’t afford a new vehicle, and, 2) I don’t expect to live long enough to have to replace our vehicles (we keep our vehicles for close to 20 years and we’re now at the 10 and 5 year ownership marks)
Maybe we’ll be lucky a get a Republican president who’ll back off the EV push. I’d prefer to have hybrid vehicles. Wife has a Kia Sportage hybrid. I had a F150 hybrid and In the past a Prius hybrid. They were great. Trouble with new cars is to much electronics and complex controls. Which we have with the Kia, F150 had to many issues. We shouldn’t be giving money to million dollar companies for EV charging stations. While Americans struggle.
Absolutely not. Whomever couldn’t build a basic plan from start to finish it was built as a finished product then work backwards then make the dots to be connected. We are using more fossil fuel now to produce electricity for such adventure yeah that works well. And now produce more contaminates to ground water and air and new ones we have no idea what health issues it’s causing. Those wanting electric vehicles there new prospects for the colonization of Mars sign up at musk.com. Ha
‘Electric’ vehicles Another liberal fraud..
We already own one EV and our other vehicles are gas. Our EV is the most driven car we own. I could easily see one being a hybrid.
Maybe, just maybe a Hybrid. I agree with all the comments about distance limits and pollution from spent batteries and power plants unable to keep up. Even solar power is not the answer. They also require huge battery banks to store the energy. Plus the cost of installing a level 2 charging station at home. EV batteries have a lifetime of about 10 years. Then thousands of $$ to replace them and hoping the correct batteries will still be available.
But, we have been talking about electric bikes.
I could see a hybrid but no EV until they can be towed 4 down
My step-father was a ship captain with a sideline as compass adjuster on ships. He was convinced that:
gps technology would never replace a compass,
The internet will never catch on,
No one would ever file their income tax electronically,
Cell phones were a passing fad for kids,
Newspapers and phone books could never be replaced,
Etc, etc, etc.
In his defense he passed away last year at 98 years old…but still very firm in his beliefs.
Your point is exact. How many people have and continue on say the same exact thing.
I’m pretty sure magnetic compasses have not been replaced with GPS. Seems magnetic north still exists. GPS certainly enhances navigation though but if the ships power is out or you find yourself on a life raft with a small sail, would a magnetic compass come in handy or would the electronic chart plotter on your life raft suffice?
In 1992, my second cousin said the world would end in 2000 if we kept buring oil. Then she said in 2000, it was all going to be over in 2008 if we didn’t stop eating meat. In 2009 she said that the polar bears would be extinct in 2 more years. By 2013, her thing was that the planets air would be unbreathable by 2015 due to deforestation in the Amazon. 2017 brought us the extinction of sea turtles because of plastic straws and this year, she says the cotton sock industry has destroyed ground water supplies. I hope she lives forever.
If she does, that would definitely keep your conversations going !
LOL. I sure hope so. One of the funnest people I know. Strangely, given that she lives in Saskatchewan, my obvious question to her was “how many plastic straws from Moose Jaw ultimately end up in the Pacific or is it the highly endangered Prairie Sea Tortoise that will become extinct?”
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The cotton sock industry has always had me scared.
We recently read that 70% of EV buyers sell that vehicle within a year or two and go back to fossil fuels.
Not a shining endorsement for EV’s.
The automotive industry can use others for their test beds.
At our age we no longer need to go from zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds.
Interesting, what was the source. KBB states just the opposite, with only 26% going back.
NO, for the following reasons; Inadequate charging infrastructure in the rural area where I live. Current battery technology that is adversely affected by extreme cold (NW WI). I’m not opposed to EV’s, they’re just not practical for my current location and needs. When the technology matures I will have no reservations converting to an electric vehicle.
My current Toad vehicle is a Smart 4-two, which gets 40-50 mpg, and has minimal affect on our RV’s mpg. When time for a replacement I will consider a hybrid (Prius or equivalent).
Let the bashing begin!
No bashing from me on this. I am 100% PRO-CHOICE on EVs and agree with your entire post.
Is that mpg by the built in computer or by miles driven divided by gallons used? All the actual tests I’ve seen say they are lucky to see 30 mpg. Remember computers don’t lie, but liars program computers.
Bob, As with any vehicle, driving style plays a big part in mpg. The Smart car is easy, and fun to drive spirited, which adversely affects mpg more than most cars. When driven conservatively, 40-50 mpg (manually calculated) is realistic.
A hybrid most likely but an all-electric won’t be in the picture until there are batteries that can travel the distance and be recharged easily.
I like my noisy, environmentally unhealthy gas powered vehicles. No EV’s in my future.
We bought a new Toyota rav 4 in 2019. Wanted a hybrid but they were setting on a ship in Seattle I was told ? So we have gasoline. Seeing we normally keep a car 20+ years it will be 2039 before we start looking. Maybe they will have batterys that perform as well as gas by then. But I doubt I’ll be alive then
I’ll probably buy a hybrid.
I all ready bought one, love it, 47.8 mpg on the highway at 75 mph, 56.2 mpg in town.
👍 right on Bob P. That’s a win!!!
Question: Do you manually select the has engine or does the vehicle select which propulsion mechanism?
“Never say never”, but at the state of the vehicles now, it just isn’t feasible. We’re also in a cold very rural area. The closest public chargers are 50 miles away. Most places we visit are also rural with no chargers. Any vehicle we get has to be flat towable. Most of our regular trips would exceed the capacity of electric on hybrids, so the engine would still have to use gas. It just doesn’t make sense now.
I have no desire to give up my internal combustion engine. It is paid for and I fully expect it to last the twenty-five or so years I have left to use it.
A very realistic goal. Of properly cared for a $ maintained there’s no reason your ICE vehicle couldn’t be running in 25-yrs. We just sold our 2003 Jeep Wrangler. Engine, bosy ans tranny was sound…just too much under carriage rust. Counting tow miles we had approx. 150,000-miles on it.
At the age of 80 I will be pushing up dandelions long before the infrastructure is in place to support EVs. The battery technology has to be improved to where recharging can be done in the same amount of time now requiring a gas fill up. Range has to be at least 400 miles comparable to gasoline powered cars now. They’ve got a long row to hoe before it will be seriously considered viable. Once all of us old fogies are out of the way young whippersnappers will accept all the pitfalls of EVs.
The dream is there. The technology is not!
Completely agree with your statement…
Simply said. NO
I selected No. The technology and infrastructure are in an early stages and currently impractical for the situations most of us face. Wholesale adoption is a long ways off.
I strongly suspect our next car will have an electric motor. They have become lighter, powerful and reliable. I am not so certain that the vehicle will be 100% battery powered.
Na, the USA electrical grid is 19.7% generated by coal. Not on my high horse as us Canadians have 6% of our electrical requirements supplied by coal. China? 62% coal for their grid.
Who needs a coal fueled Tesla?
Nope.
We already have a plug in hybrid SUV (not a Prius). 25 to 30 miles on just the electric motor, perfect for daily chores and plug in at home. Seven hours on household 120 v, 2 1/2 hours on level 2 charger to full battery. On longer trips it still gets 50 mpg. No range anxiety.
No interest whatsoever in an electric vehicle. In fact we just bought a new dino-powered Jeep Wrangler. The religion of being able to control Earth’s climate is pure folly.
The earth has been warming for millions of years, but current “smart” people think its now our fault and we can change that. To coin an old phrase, the government has put “the cart before the horse “. Unless you want to live and commute in a very limited space, the electric car is useless, and expensive. I will never consider one until major changes occur that solve the problems. consider the source of electricity to charge your car: nuclear, coal? Is there truly some benefit there?
I resent government trying to force anything upon the citizens. EVs are about control, you would be much more restricted, and less freedom of movement.
Perhaps a Hybrid but we travel too far for just a battery system
Based on the quote I just got for a Level 2 charging system for you know what and giggles, that’s a hard no. Plus my commute is much too far to be able to not have a home charging system. This fossil will stick with her fossil fuel.
I don’t see one in my limited future. No one seems to address the issue of what to do with the vehicle when the batt is finally done! Where do you dump it and at what cost? Batts are only good for so many charge cycles. I just saw an invoice for a replacement battery for a Chevy – $25,000. + change! How much is a car worth without a motor or source of fuel? What does this bode for the used car market – or is this another throw away like cigarette lighters?
When they make an electric car that can be towed flat behind my RV, I might be interested.
Me too. I would want it charge while dragging it though, which seems reasonably possible given that all the energy from 4 free spinning wheels on the toad exists, and would otherwise be a wasted energy source.
The way I figure it, I probably won’t be around when California shoves it down my throat that I have to buy an all electric vehicle.
If I am still around, I will buy a Toyota Hybrid vehicle on the last day Newsome says they will be illegal to buy.
Why don’t we have freedom of choice any more?
Never
Only if held at gunpoint by our federal Gestapo.
We ordered and purchased a new ICE sedan in 2022 to have it when California outlaws gasoline cars and we are taking delivery of another new 2024 ICE sedan we ordered in March of this year to have with our 2022 ICE sedan. Folks are welcome to their range anxiety, it is a real thing, and/or finding or waiting to recharge batteries. If cellphones are any indication of lithium battery technology, I will pass.
Our 1996 Lincoln is doing just fine and we do not plan on ever trading it in. Our kids will have an antique auto. We had our Toyota Celica for 40 years and traded it for a 1996 Miata. The 1971 Celica is still driving around town. Electric may be ready when it is time to trade again when I am 100.
My current pickup truck gets more than 600 miles on a tank of gas. An EV will have to do better than that with very convenient charging before I will even think about buying an EV.
Me getting an EV? The short answer no, long answer is hell no!!
Looks like the poll results is giving the middle finger to EVs. 😉
While I answered probably not, I have considered buying a hybrid. My deep concern is the long term effects. What are we going to do with all these highly toxic batteries in 10 years? The other concern is that I live in a part of the US that can get real cold and snowy. I wouldn’t want to get stranded in an EV.
Left to me, then the answer is probably. DW, on the other hand, is adamantly opposed to getting a new car at all (my ’16 Grand Cherokee has 91,000 miles and DW’s ’06 Mustang GT convertible has 112,000 miles). So, my answer was no. I guess we’ll see. 🙂
Already looking for it! I have an ICE I can tow nicely. We want something smaller and easier to maintain for an alternate vehicle. If they made a flat towable I would get real excited.
Maybe hybrid. We travel too much for an all electric vehicle. When our trips are generally more than 4-5 hours of driving every day it doesn’t make sense to have an all electric vehicle. Wouldn’t mind one for in town travel but otherwise just not worth it. When we got our last vehicle (year ago) I spent a lot of time investigating electric. Not a good mix for cold northern Michigan.
I would buy another series hybrid in a second, if the need arose. My Chevy Volt (my 2nd electric car) has been great. But there are too few options, despite this having been such a smart compromise that capitalized on the benefits of both gas and electric.
I will not be purchasing an all-electric vehicle any time soon. The options are too few, The cost is too much. The technology is not complete (Battery technology needs to improve) Distance is not enough. Charging stations are too few, and the charging time it takes to bring the battery bank back is way too long. Plus the cost of a charging station is prohibitive.
I would however purchase a Hybred. Like a Prius. Fuel efficiency is advancing well in the market as well as clean burning engines.
There is a long way to go before we switch to all-electric IMHO