The wrong Americans are buying electric cars - link

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In a recent Bloomberg survey of EV drivers, 14% of respondents said they owned more than one battery-powered vehicle, and 6% of those surveyed had three or more. That doubling-down dynamic is clear in sales data, too. Some 26% of EV buyers in the second quarter either traded their used electric car for a new one or simply added another to their garage, according to Edmunds. Another 9% of recent EV buyers were already driving a hybrid. Scientists, politicians and auto executives have championed electric cars to replace gas-burning vehicles, but much of the time that’s not what’s happening — at least not yet.

The repetitive buying isn’t all bad. It’s a validation of the technology, a clear pattern that, when familiar with both options and given the choice, many prefer to drive electric. It also suggests that the typical reservations among the EV-curious — namely range anxiety and charging confusion — fade quickly with use.

“It speaks to a level of excitement,” says Berkeley economist Lucas Davis. “These people love their cars.”

But it presents a problematic paradox: An EV is only a decarbonizer to the extent that it offsets both gas-powered driving and the emissions needed to make it, a process that leaves a far larger carbon footprint than that for a gas-powered car. The only way for the machine to cover its carbon, so to speak, is in miles. But, critically, in two-, three- or four-EV households, each successive car tends to be driven less. If a vehicle is going to be sitting idle in a garage, a gas-burning version is arguably a cleaner option than an EV, because of all the carbon that goes into making the latter.

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The environmentally cleanest car you can drive is the one you already own. If you need/want a new car and plan too keep it, an EV is the way to go.
 

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Another dumb EV article. "I don’t know anyone driving a 10-year-old EV. Do you?”

Do you have any idea how many EVs were on the road in 2012? Tesla sold 2500 Model S's that year, out of 14.5 million total vehicles sold in the US in that year. No wonder you don't know anyone driving a 2012 EV, dipshit. They made up roughly .017% of car sales that year.

All of these articles miss the larger point that as EVs become more mainstream - which only happens through sales - whether to people who are buying their first or their fourth - they become cheaper, better and more widely adopted. Then the infrastructure fills in to support them. And the used car market allows more to be purchased by people who can't afford a $50k car. Etc. Etc. More stupid click-bait.
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