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Electric Vehicles are a divisive topic nowadays, so I thought I would put my two cents in to show what I do and don't like about EVs and where I think they fit into the automotive world as we know it.
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Let's talk electric vehicles and where they are placed in the automotive world. Now I have an
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interesting take on electric vehicles that I don't feel like many people have in the fact that
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I just view electric vehicles as a different powertrain on the same level as having a gas
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powertrain, diesel powertrain, hybrid powertrain, or just fully electric like what we're talking
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about today. I do my best in my reviews and when I'm talking about things to not politicize the
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powertrain and look at it as being a car as a car. So today I'm going to be talking about in
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this podcast about all the things that I do like about EVs, what I don't like about EVs, where I
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personally think that they fit into the automotive world. If that sounds like something that you're
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interested in, stay tuned. Alright, so first thing we're going to be talking about is what I do like
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about EVs. Now these are things that are bringing a big benefit to the automotive world and why I
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think that they do have a good place in the automotive world. So the number one thing is
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zero to 60 times. So it used to be that a three second zero to 60 time was just something that
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hypercars were trying to achieve but now we have just standards four-door sedans like the Tesla
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Model S Plaid, as well as vehicles like the Porsche Taycan, especially with the new Turbo GT
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are able to push the boundaries and exceed three seconds no problem whatsoever. So they have really
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just pushed the boundaries of what cars can do when it comes to speed. The next thing is the
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allowance of different form factors. So vehicles up until recently have been stuck to having either
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the engine in the front or in the back and the rest of the car kind of forms around what the
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powertrain has. So when you have the engine up front you have this long hood and then you have
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the cabin and if it's a pickup truck you have a bed or a cargo area in the back. And then the
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interior of the vehicle is actually constrained also by where the powertrain goes through it
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which is why you have things like a transmission hump that can go through the front and back seats
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of the vehicle. It makes it so like the center of the rear passengers is extremely uncomfortable
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and electric vehicles allow for that to be a little bit more comfortable
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While electric vehicles nowadays also are following kind of a more traditional car
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look and styling just to be able to kind of fit into the market, they do have the capability of
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completely switching things up. A good example is like the Volkswagen ID Buzz. It's a bus that
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kind of follows the older design style but allows for a lot more passenger space in the van because
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it doesn't have to worry about having an engine up front. Instead it uses a skateboard platform
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where the batteries are down below allowing for a ton of passenger space up above that battery
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So I think that is really important to think about because it might actually define the future of
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what vehicles look like when they're not constrained by any specific design because of where the engine
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is placed. Another thing that is great about electric vehicles, it does have less moving
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components. I actually have a background in selling engines, transmissions, axles, all that kind of
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stuff in internal combustion vehicles and I can say there is so much that's going on in a vehicle
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that can go wrong when it's running on a gas engine. The engine itself has thousands of different
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components. You have the transmission, you have transfer cases, you have all of those different
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things and any one little thing goes wrong and everything fails. However when it comes to
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electric vehicles you have the battery pack. Sure there are a bunch of different batteries within that pack but I think over time those are going to be really easy to repair. And then of course
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you have a couple electric motors depending on what vehicle it is. It can range from one to four
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motors depending on what you're looking at. However outside of that there isn't a ridiculous amount of
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moving components when it comes to the drivetrain itself. So simplifying those things can make it so
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repairing a vehicle is easier, cheaper, and a much better experience overall. Theoretically have less
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downtime of vehicle when it's needing to be repaired. Now I know what you're thinking. Sure a
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Tesla battery can cost twenty something thousand dollars. We are finding a lot of different cases
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where that is expensive. However I do see honestly in the next couple years as as EVs are being built
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out that those prices are going to come down and I'll be completely honest if you compare something
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like a Tesla which is pseudo in the luxury market and you're comparing it against things like Jaguar
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Land Rover, or any of those other like BMWs and in those luxury market I don't know if you know
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how much those engines do cost to replace but it's pretty much on par with a battery pack
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While other vehicles you know like GM, Ford and that kind of stuff are much cheaper I don't think
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everybody realizes how incredibly expensive a luxury vehicle engine really is in going into
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transmissions and then the actual labor of doing all the work doing rebuilds on engines it really
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really does rack up and is I would say on par with replacing a battery pack. Now the last thing that
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I do really like about EVs is that you can charge them at home. Sure you do have to install some
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special charging equipment to be able to really get good charge times however the nice thing is
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you can just plug it in when you get home just like you do with your cell phone and then you can
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just sit and forget it you don't have to drop by gas stations you don't have to think about any of
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that and it's just a really simple thing to do of course as long as you've installed the
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appropriate equipment in your home but that is a really big plus to not have to think about
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So those are the things I do like now let's get into the things that I don't like about EVs
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Number one comes down to lower range. Now while electric vehicles have been improving a ton over
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the years they still don't quite have the range of a gas vehicle and the reason really comes down to
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filling back up. Of course filling up a gas car takes just a couple minutes whereas charging up
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an electric vehicle takes upwards of 45 minutes to an hour depending on which vehicle you're
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looking at. I know that there are other vehicles that do charge faster and that kind of stuff
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but your general consensus is it's around 45 minutes to get a reasonable amount of range back
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which means you do have to think about that and a gas car just can go farther in a faster period of
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time which is really really nice and it's a big downside to electric vehicles that I think most
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people are thinking about and that's called range anxiety. Next thing that I don't like is longer
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charge times. Having to sit there for 45 minutes is a big downside there's no way around it you can
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argue it all day long but that is just a big downside and a big detractor from a lot of people
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especially those that don't want to install special equipment at home because things like
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the Hummer EV I think can take upwards of like a week to charge up to 100% when it's sitting at
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home with just a standard charging and that's just a big detractor and something a lot of people
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just don't want to deal with and I think is the biggest issue as to why there isn't an adoption
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rate of EVs yet. Another thing that is a big downside comes down to the batteries themselves
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these things are crazy expensive I already talked about it a little bit earlier but battery packs
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are just expensive and if they do fail a lot of times they have to completely replace the battery
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pack and that can be expensive. We don't really know what the future holds when it comes to
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repairability of a lot of these EVs and a lot of people are finding that it is really expensive
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and something that you should be keeping an account of when you buy an EV. Which again leads me to my
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next point which is the uncertain future so if you're going to buy an electric vehicle right now
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you don't really know what the manufacturer is going to do for long-term success of that vehicle
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sure they may be taking care of it now but however if EVs drop off in popularity like we're kind of
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seeing right now you don't know if you're going to get a ton of maintenance. A good example of this
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is the original Tesla Roadster that I actually have reviewed in the past Tesla kind of forgot
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about for a long time they weren't willing to do any repairs on them because they had kind of moved
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onto the skateboard platform instead the old battery architecture that they had used in the
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Roadster so they just decided to stop maintaining them and it had to go to the private sectors to
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do any form of maintenance on the vehicles which is a big downside and I would be a little bit
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worried if I were to buy an EV now if that would be a concern. So those are the things that I do and
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I don't like about EVs but where do EVs fit in the market for me? Now I had touched on it a little
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bit earlier but I honestly think EVs just are another powertrain it's another choice for
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customers I think that's a really good thing I think people do over politicize EVs a little bit
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too much and not just seeing them as an alternative powertrain for people that do want an EV. For a
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lot of people that are not on-move enthusiasts they don't want to think about their cars it's
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just an A to B thing and a lot of times an EV does a fantastic job of that if you're not somebody that
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takes long road trips or commutes all the time or any of that kind of stuff for longer periods of
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time an EV you don't even have to think about sometimes you only have to charge maybe once a
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week you just plug it in your house and you don't have to think about it again and that's a really
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nice thing and considering there's less maintenance costs less work going into the vehicle it is kind
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of nice for a segment of people out there it doesn't have to be politicized it's just another
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powertrain and I think that's a really good thing that means there's gonna be enhancements in the EV
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side which can help with hybrid components like the Lamborghini Revuelto that we have coming out
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soon it has an amazing hybrid powertrain but the only way we'd be able to have hyper cars like that
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where it has a hybrid powertrain is due to the fact that there has been such enhancements in
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the EV side of things they were able to put the two together to create an amazing hyper car that
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a lot of people like and is allowing the v12 to continue to be able to live that wouldn't be able
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to happen if EVs weren't as good as they are now today now do I think that EVs will be the only car
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out there no honestly just like it always has been there's going to be multiple different
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powertrains to be able to choose from will EVs gain in popularity over the next 10 20 years
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yeah I'm my personal thought is that EVs will probably be around 20% of vehicles on the road
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they already are getting pretty close to that I don't know if you've seen how many electric
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vehicles are out there however it is getting bigger and bigger I don't think it'll ever be
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the 100% of cars on the road will be electric vehicles but I think it's going to be a significant
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amount of vehicles on the road and that's okay now as for myself I personally think that hybrid
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vehicles are probably one of the best solutions nowadays I think it's a fantastic alternative
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something like turbochargers I'm not a big fan of turbocharged vehicles just because turbochargers
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do put so much strain on a gas engine a lot of times manufacturers are choosing to have smaller
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engines with a turbocharger on them to be able to give you that extra speed when you need passing
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and that kind of stuff and I actually think a hybrid powertrain does a better job because
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it's not putting the extra strain on the engine it's actually relieving strain on the engine
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and so I think hybrid powertrains are actually a really really really great alternative to a
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standard gas engine because they actually work together in a really great way and can allow
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things like a front wheel drive powertrain to be all-wheel drive without a lot of extra components
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and honestly would probably last longer too and then the final thought I have on where EVs are
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fitting in the market is I think they're actually making gas cars better gas cars were not doing a
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ton when it comes to advancements in them I think electric vehicles have really been pushing gas
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cars to get better they're competing with EVs that are in the three second two second range for 0 to
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60 they just have to be better so it's pushing manufacturers to make their ice cars better and
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better and I think that's a good thing of pushing the automotive culture forward instead of holding
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it back into the past so anyways that is my thoughts on electric vehicles I wanted to get
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it out there because I think too many people are politicizing it people are saying that electric vehicles are not even cars it's like it's just a powertrain and I just hope that people kind of
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take a little bit bigger and better look at electric vehicles and their place in the market
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because I think people are just angry to be angry and I hope this has kind of opened people's eyes
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a little bit into what an EV can be and what I personally think about EVs so this is something
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that you guys can reference to whenever I'm talking about EVs on this channel so if you
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haven't already make sure to subscribe to this channel or or wherever you're listening to this
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