I need a new car, and I really want to go full electric. I’m wondering if anyone regrets buying one? What are the downsides?

  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Ah yes, the dangerous battery myth.

    Much safer to store a vehicle full of extremely flammable liquid with ten times the potential energy of a comparable lithium battery, right?

    • Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      31 minutes ago

      Okay but ice cars tend to catch fire while running or fueling. EV’s are the same, it’s just they tend to fuel at home and possibly inside of a flammable structure while completely unnattended. I don’t honestly know the actual fire risk of an EV and honestly I doubt there’s a lot of good data that can be found with the amount of time i’d be willing to invest, what with EV companies wanting to downplay and any and every oil-related industry wanting to exaggerate.