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"YOU VOTED FOR THIS": Ford Shuts Down Kentucky EV Battery Operations, Fires 1,600 Workers Right Before Christmas as Trump Rolls Back Emissions Rules (thedailyadda.com)

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“There are a lot more people out here living in abject poverty than what people like to think or admit to. You voted for this—and now we’re paying the price.”

Employees learned of the cuts on Monday in a video message from Michael Adams, CEO of BlueOval SK.

Adams announced the transition would mean “the end of all BlueOval SK positions in Kentucky.”

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (19 children)

I try to tell people this all the time. They always say they're worried about range and I slays remind them that it's plugged in when you're home so you always start the day with full range. Unlike an ICE where your range dwindles with every drive until you make a specific stop at a gas station. Also not having to worry about oil changes has to be amazing.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem for me is the absolutely criminal rates for DC fast charging, and the fact that almost every EV charger is trying to lock you in to an ecosystem. This is pretty easy to fix though.

What I learned driving my EV for a year is that people don't have range anxiety, they have charging anxiety. When you are on a trip in your EV, it is very difficult to find a charger without pulling over and futzing around in a few apps. Meanwhile, for gas cars, they've had 2+ stations at every exit for the last hour with prices on billboards that can be seen from miles away.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

This is valid, the charging infrastructure was getting much better than stalled ironically because people said "the charging infrastructure isn't good enough". If a trip is long enough sometimes we just rent a car

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

My "break even" point where it costs the same to use my EV or my wife's civic is one stop to recharge. If a trip is going to take 2 or more fast charges, it's cheaper to to take the other car.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago (15 children)

Though, if I started at home, drove out of town to where I'm staying for the night, and the woman/friend/family member/hotel I'm sleeping at doesn't have a charger, then I start the day severely depleted and have to go find the nearest charger god knows where and then hang out there for what I assume is at least a couple hours.

With gas, yeah you have to get gas, but gas stations are everywhere and I don't have to wait for the gas to charge, it just dumps in the tank and I'm back moving in under 5min.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A prime example of the argument propaganda has pushed.

How do I know? Because I've seen this argument literally hundreds of times and it's so easily bunked.

How often do you actually make that drive? Is it every month or more? I highly highly doubt that you're driving that far that frequently.

If it's that rare? Rent a car. It'll be less than buying gas.

Or, if you have a two car household have one EV and one ice. Take the ice on long trips and then 99% of the trips you take near home it's ev.

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

Even if they make that drive every month, a plugin hybrid would be a vastly better solution. I used to have a job I did have to make the trip every month. I really wanted a plugin hybrid for that reason.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 point 10 months ago

And that's exactly what I recommend for people who can only have one car, it's not as great as a full EV, but it'll get you over the hump

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Yes, for that rare occurrence you will be inconvenienced. Meanwhile every other day of your life will be more convenient.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Rare for you, not necessarily rare for everyone.

What's more, I have a townhouse with an HOA I hate, not even sure I'm allowed to install a charger out front of my house. And before that when I was renting apartments what am I supposed to run an extension cord from my bedroom down to the parking lot?

Not everyone has the privileged homebody life you may, happy for you though.

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

Rare for me, and the vast majority of people.

Not everyone has the privileged homebody life you may

You're really trying to throw an ad hominem attack at me, but your problems are systematic. Your problems aren't with me, someone who wants you to have a better, less stressful life. You've got things twisted in your head.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's not ad hominem, your argument is "people don't sleep outside their house, the house they own, where they can install a charger for their car."

From this we can conclude you are privileged enough to afford a new(ish, at least) car, own a house, and you're a homebody who by your own admission doesn't often sleep outside of said house at a friend's, girlfriend's, relative's, or hotel, thus privileged and a homebody.

Would it be nice if every house had at least two or three car chargers so everyone could charge their cars at the same time and we could all go electric? Sure. Can everyone I know afford to buy a car, a house, and install the chargers? No. Am I going to install one at my house, one at my mom's for when I visit, and one at my girlfriend's apartment? Also no.

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Keep trying to make me the enemy. I'm sure that will help everyone.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I didn't, the fact that you think people who can afford that stuff are the enemy is your own problem to solve, I even congratulated you on it.

But I'm also informing you (apparently) that not everyone is in the same situation and able to do the same thing. Quite a lot of people in fact. For those people "just do it bro" doesn't really work, you don't have to take that fact personally.

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Now you're trying to gaslight.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

No u.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

It’s not a couple hours it’s like 15-30 minutes.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

Really? That's pretty damn fast, I'm impressed. Is that all brands or just some? If that's like a "just tesla" thing I'm right out, not buying a car that has spy cameras and can be bricked remotely, and that's before the politics even come into play lol, and that applies to new ice vehicles too.

30min is definitely more doable. Still inconvenient but not like hours inconvenient.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

Not specific to Tesla at all. Things have gotten good really quickly in the past 2-3 years.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago

Nice, well that is good to know indeed. Hell maybe I can work with that if I can find one that isn't invasive to privacy and all. For now I'm sticking to OBD2 if possible haha.

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