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Put a set of slicks on the Hellcat to match the AWD of the Tesla and guaranteed the Hellcat beats the T in the 1/4 mile.
I'd take the Dodge anyday over the T.
Put a set of slicks on the Hellcat to match the AWD of the Tesla and guaranteed the Hellcat beats the T in the 1/4 mile.
I'd take the Dodge anyday over the T.
You can also have sex with a Kate Upton doll but I wouldn't consider it equivalent to having sex with Kate Upton
Don't forget to add in the cost of new tires every 6 months for the Dodge's prices
See this is where you lose me, what range should "the average car" have? Most people use cars to get to and from work, and that should be a good place to start. Now sure taking them on road trips that are greater than a couple hundred miles are not practical, but at what point do you say "I have a car for that", the "average" household owns more than one car, and if you have a tiny little compact car going a long drive in that isn't going to be that nice on long trips either. I will agree with you that EVs are not in any way the "all-in-one" useful vehicle though.
They can, but it depends what you're comparing it to, if you take a fairly efficient moderately priced car vs. a Tesla yeah you're not saving money on that comparison. If you compare a Tesla to a similar fancy higher end luxury-sports car, then the cost difference is a different ball game. But again, if you're buying an EV just to save money on a vehicle, yeah there are other ways to do that that save more money.
This is one I'd like to see some numbers on, I'm skeptical on both sides of this argument simply because I've never seen an argument that takes "the big picture" into account on BOTH sides, very often arguments against environmental claims go to the batteries life-death cycle or how the power is produced, however the gasoline side of thing rarely takes the big picture either, how tainted is the ground water from fracking? gas doesn't come directly from fracked oil? irrelevant because fracked oil does supplant imported oil, how many resources are put to keep our oil supply safe? There's a much bigger picture on the IC side of things.
Opinion, and irrelevant, many cars are ugly as all hell, people still drive them, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm driving my car, not looking at it from the outside, I don't care too much what it looks like to a fair degree.
See I don't get the "fun" factor that's used as an argument. Going back to the beginning "the average car" is not used for fun. Shit gas costs too damn much in today's world to simply have "fun" driving a car. I do understand though that some people do have expectations of enjoying their drive, in fact the fuckers who rev up and down my street all the time to the point where if I wouldn't be arrested for premeditated murder I would run a high tensile strength steel cable across a couple telephone poles are pretty much showing me what fun is. But what exactly makes a car fun to drive?
Regardless if what I said, I am in no way pro-EV either. However I'm not anti-EV and it does annoy me when arguments are used to bash a product for what reason I will never understand, especially when it's done with FUD, arguments of "Enjoy paying $30k for replacement batteries in 7 years" and this sometimes comes from people who regularly swap out their cars every 5-6 years because they're always chiming in about "resale value". And how's the saving going? Cheaper, faster, smaller, pick 2? Anti-EV arguments seem to pick more than 2, just as you did, you pick on range, you pick on savings, you pick on environment, you pick on looks, you pick on fun-factor. Someone who feels good about not buying gas may not care about saving money, sure you do, but did you really think about all those things with your current car? are you saving money? are you doing anything for the environment? You having fun?
