Car Brain people are always upset about losing the capability of something they'll need like a few times in their life. yeah, maybe actually your eco-vehicle wont work for that thing, god forbid you have to rent a different vehicle for a day instead of buying it permanently for thousands more.
i always remember the Louis Rossman " Electric cars aren't practical " video, where he immediately discounts 99.9% of daily driving because he lives in New York and public transport and an e-bike is easier to use there than a car. ok, plenty of cities aren't like that, but he continues
since you can't use a car in a city, the next thing you use it on is Roadtrips. That's right, gas or electric, the reason to buy a vehicle costing tens of thousands of dollars is that thing you probably wont do more than 10 times in your entire life for a few days.
So why doesn't an electric car work for road trips? Well there is a long stretch of highway in Montana that doesn't have fast chargers. so there's one remote place of america you can't easily road trip. Since the point of road trips is go to remote places, this makes an electric car utterly impractical for poor struggling families.
It would do a lot of good if car rentals weren't such scams in the US. You have to be at least 25, they tell you they have a car available when they don't, they send you out with a half tank and charge you for returning it with the same, and they will do their level best to find some bullshit little scratch to charge you for. Even if you only need to haul something or go on a road trip 10 times a year it's a huge pain in the ass.
I think a lot of people would happily give up owning a car if it was easy enough to rent one the few times you do need it.
I've found that ones outside of airports are like that, but U-Hauls generally are run better. Idk, I've never had any problems with them and I've used them dozens of times to help move friends and myself.
Uhaul has twice pulled the "Sure we have a van available for you" shit but then it wasn't there when I arrived, and either had to wait 3 hours for it to be returned (because "We have a van for you" means "we're expecting one back by the time you arrive" in uhaul speak) and on the other occasion was told to go pound sand.
Damn, that sucks. I usually go in person to check stuff out beforehand though or schedule stuff out weeks in advance. Probably just perks of living in a low density area.
Not Just Bikes had a good video on this. It's such a more efficient way to do things, both from the individual perspective (saved money and hassle of car ownership) and the societal one (fewer vehicles with higher usage).
Louis Rossman is what happens when a terminal lib has dealt with enough apple vendor lockin bullshit to displace the techbro worship enough to create a void to be filled in with bodega brain.
So why doesn’t an electric car work for road trips?
I've got a hybrid Volt that gets the first 50 miles on rechargable electric and the next 400 on a seven gallon gas tank because its a crazy efficient vehicle.
I will drive all the fuck over Montana on my electric car.
Car Brain people are always upset about losing the capability of something they'll need like a few times in their life. yeah, maybe actually your eco-vehicle wont work for that thing, god forbid you have to rent a different vehicle for a day instead of buying it permanently for thousands more.
i always remember the Louis Rossman " Electric cars aren't practical " video, where he immediately discounts 99.9% of daily driving because he lives in New York and public transport and an e-bike is easier to use there than a car. ok, plenty of cities aren't like that, but he continues
since you can't use a car in a city, the next thing you use it on is Roadtrips. That's right, gas or electric, the reason to buy a vehicle costing tens of thousands of dollars is that thing you probably wont do more than 10 times in your entire life for a few days.
So why doesn't an electric car work for road trips? Well there is a long stretch of highway in Montana that doesn't have fast chargers. so there's one remote place of america you can't easily road trip. Since the point of road trips is go to remote places, this makes an electric car utterly impractical for poor struggling families.
It would do a lot of good if car rentals weren't such scams in the US. You have to be at least 25, they tell you they have a car available when they don't, they send you out with a half tank and charge you for returning it with the same, and they will do their level best to find some bullshit little scratch to charge you for. Even if you only need to haul something or go on a road trip 10 times a year it's a huge pain in the ass.
I think a lot of people would happily give up owning a car if it was easy enough to rent one the few times you do need it.
I've found that ones outside of airports are like that, but U-Hauls generally are run better. Idk, I've never had any problems with them and I've used them dozens of times to help move friends and myself.
Uhaul has twice pulled the "Sure we have a van available for you" shit but then it wasn't there when I arrived, and either had to wait 3 hours for it to be returned (because "We have a van for you" means "we're expecting one back by the time you arrive" in uhaul speak) and on the other occasion was told to go pound sand.
Fool me twice shame on me I suppose.
Damn, that sucks. I usually go in person to check stuff out beforehand though or schedule stuff out weeks in advance. Probably just perks of living in a low density area.
Sorry for the rant comrade I'm just tired :rat-salute-2:
Nah I get it, shit can be frustrating. Solidarity!
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Home Depot rents trucks for like $120 a day if you're over 21, and they don't care too much about them if everything's still attached.
Not Just Bikes had a good video on this. It's such a more efficient way to do things, both from the individual perspective (saved money and hassle of car ownership) and the societal one (fewer vehicles with higher usage).
Louis Rossman is insufferable.
He's an excellent example of a person who is good at one thing (fixing computers) so he thinks his opinion on everything else is also gold.
He really is the Scotty Kilmer of electronics.
Just watch Adrian's digital basement, it's better anyway.
Louis Rossman is what happens when a terminal lib has dealt with enough apple vendor lockin bullshit to displace the techbro worship enough to create a void to be filled in with bodega brain.
He's a libertarian not a liberal. And he moved out of NYC a while back.
Haven't seen his videos in a while but that tracks
I've got a hybrid Volt that gets the first 50 miles on rechargable electric and the next 400 on a seven gallon gas tank because its a crazy efficient vehicle.
I will drive all the fuck over Montana on my electric car.