by AdamB » Tue 24 Jun 2025, 10:19:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'Y')ou still here talking shit adam? Owning a couple of nissan leaf's doesn't make you an authority on EV matters anymore than paying a medical bill makes you a doctor.
For the first time in perhaps....forever...you have made a valid point. If you wanted to appear just a WEE bit smarter, your arguement expressed in a language that mathematicians and statistians would understand would be "Adam, the sample size of your personal experience, even though substantial for an individual, is insufficient to accurately represent a population of millions of cages."
However, there is something experience does allow me to do, even with the sample size of like 4 cages and more than a quarter million miles, that you cannot in any way shape or form possess. And that is verify the individual validity of claims made about EVs. For example, 8 years and replacing a battery. Not me. An EV cage being good for nothing more than short commuting. Not for me. The price being too high. Not for me.
And there are other angles in here that in your ignorance you appear to not understand. When dealing with large sample sizes, where people draw their statistics from to write the articles that tend to bash electrics (the only ones you happen to parrot), average performance is generally the metric referenced. Batteries last XX long. They often don't include "on average" as a qualifier, some might. But I don't figure journalists, let alone your online sources, know any more about probability density functions than you do. Those of us who do stats as part of our profession notice these things, because journalists aren't necessarily any more intelligent than you are when it comes to their use.
And just as my personal experience is personal, and a small sample size, it is relevant because I am NOT an average cager with EVs. I watch battery temperatures when charging and using. I charge at slower rates for a longer time. I do not use any super fast charging. All but one of my EVs has been garaged. I live in a climate that while it has occasional extremes in temperature, it can mostly be considered temperate. I do not use an EV when temperates are extremely low, I force the wife to take an ICE cage, EV stays in unheated garage, but even at -25F temperatures it rarely goes <32F.
I do these things because I wish to optimize my EVs, optimize for th minimum $/mile in operating costs. They are naturally optimized for infintesimal running costs, I simply take maximum advantage of that single characteristic whenever possible.
But one of the few reasonable comments you've made in your entire history here. And you are correct. Reading a medical bill doesn't make me a doctor. But more than a decade of experience and 1/4 million miles with EVs doesn't make me fall for your cherry picked articles either. Why? because I've been at this for a decade and 1/4 million miles and they work just fine within their envelope of performance.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
') What you know about all these issues I could fit on an 1.44 meg floppy disk. Learn to use search engines and educate your dull cow brain

I use search engines all the time. I also can learn. Which is why "average" results are something that almost never occurs in my personal life, or family. I have taught them well to not be...well...like you. Buying whatever horseswill you find online as though that trumps actual real life experience...even if it is a small sample size of experience to the world at large, but light years ahead of ignorant fools who believe whatever they read....as long as it supports their PRECONCEIVED uneducated and ignorant notions.