It feels like when a friend buys something, realizes he doesn’t need it or like it and then gives it to you. Nice gesture but still. I wish he had bought something for me rather than think of me for something he doesn’t need anymore. But maybe I’m being too negative about it.

Mass adoption is definitely inevitable, and the growth rates of the EV market are huge, but buying an electric vehicle today is still not a straightforward decision - especially in single car households. The range and charging infrastructure doesn’t yet provide a credible alternative to that of internal combustion engines.

It’ll come though. As ranges and charging speeds improve, it’ll become as easy (if not easier) to charge your car than fill the fuel tank.

There are also challenges with costs. Batteries represent a huge proportion of the cost of the vehicles and don’t come cheap. So there’s also a bit of a chicken and egg situation when it comes to volumes and economies of scale. At the moment an EV often represents a more expensive initial outlay versus a traditional power train.

I’m sad. I could witter on about this stuff all day…

Good riddance!

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Very selfless, but also very r/orphancrushingmachine

this will go horribly wrong mark my words

Our level 2 charger (hardwired juice box) retailed for around $650 USD. We had a credit of over $300 from our energy provider’s online shop to help with the cost. Installation was done by a neighbor who is a union electrician for $200 in labor and $100 in materials.

I missed that? He’s says that about his friends?

But the naysayers on here have been swearing to me for years now that EVs are exclusive playthings for only the richest people. Weird how they keep increasing 50% every year.

They don’t get praise till they stop doing all the reprehensible shit. Sure we basically enslaved thousands of immigrants but we’re giving away these used trailers we were just going to scrap anyway… nah fuck Qatar

When you say "tipping point", do you mean majority share, or the tipping point for mass adoption? I've read several articles stating that we're beyond the point in the S-curve where mass adoption becomes rapid and inevitable.

I would hope that as more and more territories ban ICE car sales from 2035 or even 2030, and interim sales quotas are mandated, that no manufacturer is stupid enough to sit back on this one.

Who the fuck put these onions in my room?!

We should start a festival to celebrate. Let's call it Wood Stork.

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While good news, some caution: bit of a sensationalist title - EV car sales hit $1tn cumulatively over the last ten years. That represents less than half of a single year of all auto sales.

Adoption rates are growing, and legislation on new sales needing to be zero emission is helping, but it probably won’t be until the back end of this decade that we’ll begin to see the tipping point in favour of EV - and even then it’ll only be in some vehicle segments and in some countries.

Source: Am product strategist with global carmaker.

Condemn them for the bad, but also praise them for the good. Well done Qatar.

For all the shady and heinous things they have done, this certainly seems like a change in the right direction

Wow that's the best news out Qatar ever

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Yea exactly, this is a great story but I hate that it relies on the goodness and availablity of people. Why can't the government pay these ppl to do this all the time???

I guess I fundamentally disagree with you on what empathy is then.

These are words used for humor and self-expression, they are not causing harm to be done to any individual or group. They just feel a little uncomfortable to you because you’ve been conditioned to feel offended on behalf of others who didn’t ask for it. That’s not empathy. That’s a savior complex.

It’s not like it’s the n-word with an actual history of dehumanization and horrors beyond our comprehension. It’s an outdated medical term that is used colloquially to mean that something is dumb. Sorry I didn’t account for your sensitivity and say “mentally disabled” or “handicapped,” which honestly sound way more offensive and ableist to me.

Thank you for sharing your moral superiority with the class, I’m sure you’re beyond reproach.

One can only hope. But it seems right now they can't even keep cars in stock.

Her name is Nose Sugar thank you very much.

Thanks. Its one thing to use that term at all, but for someone with down syndrome? Its been proven without a shadow of a doubt that people with down syndrome have the capacity for just about everything that the rest of us do. There is such a lack of empathy here its disgusting.

Made me happy, made me smile