• fr0g@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      They’re easier to build than internal combustion engine cars. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to build in general.

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        1 year ago

        That’s what it means. They are incredibly easy to build.

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      1 year ago

      If they were easy to build, European car companies would have no problem to build them.

      Of course, putting a battery and an electric drive into a car is simple. Electric cars are 50 years older than combustion cars. But there’s a reason why they did not took off in the 1840s and why we did not use electric cars for 180 years — building usable ones is difficult.

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          1 year ago

          Yes – but the usability used to be pretty bad until recently.

          I had friends using electric cars ~ 8–10 years ago. The effective range was often less than 100 km, carging time abysmal long, even lesser range in winter, famously no heating nor radio in winter to preserve battery. No fun.

          It got better just the last couple of years, but only for upper class and a few middle class vehiclrs. They are still not able to build affordable small cars with a usable range.

          Happy to be proven wrong.

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            1 year ago

            Can’t prove you wrong. I am upper class and can afford luxury.
            At the same time tho, theres also no affordable combustion cars. Affordable means used.