Having two cars doesn't necessarily mean this will be right for a household. I currently have two cars, but I always need my newest car to be the one that can go on a long trip. My next oldest car is always driven to the point that it still works around the city but I wouldn't take it very far. So for me, it would be my next oldest car that an EV would replace functionality-wise. Financially speaking it doesn't make sense for me to buy a new EV that functions as my next oldest car, thus leaving me without the long-range driving function of my newest car. Maybe some households have permanently ruled out ever going for a long road trip or at least don't mind using a rental vehicle, and for them I'm sure an EV would be fine. But almost everyone I know goes into the wilderness to go camping or to a vacation home from time to time, and while I understand you can make it work plugging into a regular outlet, if I'm on vacation I don't necessarily want to stop going places because it's time for my vehicle to charge. I'm not sure if I would even be comfortable knowing I have a vehicle needing several hours charge even to get to the nearest hospital if i had to.
I actually recently replaced my next oldest car by a vehicle I got for $6K because that's what the person was being given for a trade in. Works fine for me around the city. It causes me to wonder what the economics will even be of buying a 10+ year old EV as a second car. By the time an EV is that old, it will be time for a new battery which costs a great deal more then $6K. Hopefully something will happen to make it cheap ($200-300) to recondition batteries of older EVs or they may just go into the junk heap.
Real burn out is caused by the conditions of your work, not the amount of work. Burn out affects your personal life. It affects you psychologically and makes you irritable to the people around you and hard to live with. It doesn't just go away unless the work conditions causing it are alleviated. It is enough to know that you must go back to work for the psychological effect to persist.
And in my experience you need someone like me to micromanage you so that our customers are actually satisfied with your work. I may not even be able to let you speak to the customer directory because of pure lack of professionalism. So thanks for the job.
I'm not saying it's not right, I'm just saying it's not ready to be mainstream, and that EV companies are going to have to do a lot more than they currently are to make them so.
From this article In 2009, 18.6% of the population was participating in at least one means-tested benefit program. That number was up to 21.3% in 2012. But the increase in welfare participation seems to be leveling off; there was no statistically significant rise in participation from 2011 to 2012.
Participation wouldn't be increasing if no one was getting anything out of it.
If you work your entire life away and pass up your chance to raise and enrich a loving family and have them enrich your life back, then you aren't really ahead.
Packing a cooler and eating on the road stopping only for bathroom breaks and gas fills so as to get to your destination asap is a fairly common scenario. Not sure why you would say it is made up, we do it all the time. We have no interest in giving money to some greasy restaurant along the way when we can bring some ham and some bread for sandwiches. Any reason we must stop, especially stop and spend more money, is a big inconvenience for us.
I'm just not comfortable making such a large purchase for something that might become an impediment if I want to use it in a way that I don't normally do. ie. I don't really care if it is charged for me ready to use 98% of the time if it is going to be absolutely terrible to use for the other 2%. An expensive vehicle for me is all-purpose, not just something that I use to drive to work. Either the prices have to come down on these to around 60% of an ICE to account for the inconvenience or they need to get more convenient.
If I'm working long hours, it will be for myself thanks. Keep in mind that Zuck works long hours because he won the lottery and the project he works long hours on is actually something of his own. If a company wants to hire me then they can either appreciate me for the good work I do during my eight hour day or I will take my skills elsewhere.
I agree, until the number of quick charging spots approaches that of gas stations, and by quick charge I mean ten minutes, then it is still a niche product for people with less demanding time constraints on their trips.
A tesla can be charged very slowly anywhere there is an available electrical socket.
But if that electrical socket isn't at some place that you wanted to stop for that long anyway, then it's a pretty big hit to your freedom of where you go. Rather, you are settling to stay over at the place where you can plug in.
What are you talking about? Plenty of gas stations have restaurants. We generally don't want to eat at that restaurant however so we spend five minutes filling up and drive to the restaurant we want to eat at. Or so a rest stop and have a picnic, or just eat on the road.
Unlikely to happen any time soon because it requires too much standardization between car makers and battery vendors to be viable.
How did we ever end up with all TVs using the same standard coax cable? This whole thing about companies not being able to standardize seems to be a very new thing.
Every living human can also decide to be on welfare instead of participating in the job market. And I can tell you, seeing as so many people are against raising minimum wage even to compensate for inflation, I don't blame people for being on welfare at all. I suspect why the level of people depending on welfare has been increasing for the last 30 years and shows no sign of stopping.
That's ridiculous. Companies don't get bailed out by governments in capitalism! In true capitalism, we celebrate when companies fail because they get replaced by a greater number of stronger companies.
If Uber wanted to run rickshaws, horse-drawn carriages, canoes and kayaks then I'm sure they would get an exemption for those modes of transportation. As it turns out, automobile transportation tends to be a lot more important in terms of city planning, so that is what the rules are around. Uber is an automobile transportation company so must follow the same rules as other automobile transportation companies in the sense of fairness. It's up to Uber how they make their business model work with the market, and if they were allowed to use 'we don't own cars' as an excuse, after seeing the break Uber gets, all the other companies would find excuses in order to compete on even footing and we would be back to square one anyway.
All the 'general' things you listed don't sound like something that a company would pay top dollar for, though. In fact they sound like things specifically targeted at 'cheaper' workers. So maybe you can pass as a generalist, but you won't be making an awesome living off of it.
With all due respect, I hope you also give a lesson on how to compete with a foreign programmer making $5 a day along with those coding lessons. Otherwise one of your students might get the idea that it is a good thing to base their career on.
So you want the disabled to pay for 'premium' services, while most of them cannot work and are just trying to get by. The government can't pay for it, because so many complain when their taxes go up or are used for a service that has no value to them. Charities are ill-equipped to run a full transport operation. So America turns their backs on these people. Pathetic.
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Having two cars doesn't necessarily mean this will be right for a household. I currently have two cars, but I always need my newest car to be the one that can go on a long trip. My next oldest car is always driven to the point that it still works around the city but I wouldn't take it very far. So for me, it would be my next oldest car that an EV would replace functionality-wise. Financially speaking it doesn't make sense for me to buy a new EV that functions as my next oldest car, thus leaving me without the long-range driving function of my newest car. Maybe some households have permanently ruled out ever going for a long road trip or at least don't mind using a rental vehicle, and for them I'm sure an EV would be fine. But almost everyone I know goes into the wilderness to go camping or to a vacation home from time to time, and while I understand you can make it work plugging into a regular outlet, if I'm on vacation I don't necessarily want to stop going places because it's time for my vehicle to charge. I'm not sure if I would even be comfortable knowing I have a vehicle needing several hours charge even to get to the nearest hospital if i had to.
I actually recently replaced my next oldest car by a vehicle I got for $6K because that's what the person was being given for a trade in. Works fine for me around the city. It causes me to wonder what the economics will even be of buying a 10+ year old EV as a second car. By the time an EV is that old, it will be time for a new battery which costs a great deal more then $6K. Hopefully something will happen to make it cheap ($200-300) to recondition batteries of older EVs or they may just go into the junk heap.
Real burn out is caused by the conditions of your work, not the amount of work. Burn out affects your personal life. It affects you psychologically and makes you irritable to the people around you and hard to live with. It doesn't just go away unless the work conditions causing it are alleviated. It is enough to know that you must go back to work for the psychological effect to persist.
And in my experience you need someone like me to micromanage you so that our customers are actually satisfied with your work. I may not even be able to let you speak to the customer directory because of pure lack of professionalism. So thanks for the job.
What you are describing is fatigue, not burn out.
I'm not saying it's not right, I'm just saying it's not ready to be mainstream, and that EV companies are going to have to do a lot more than they currently are to make them so.
From this article In 2009, 18.6% of the population was participating in at least one means-tested benefit program. That number was up to 21.3% in 2012. But the increase in welfare participation seems to be leveling off; there was no statistically significant rise in participation from 2011 to 2012.
Participation wouldn't be increasing if no one was getting anything out of it.
Also, they usually get 6 weeks vacation to start.
If you work your entire life away and pass up your chance to raise and enrich a loving family and have them enrich your life back, then you aren't really ahead.
Packing a cooler and eating on the road stopping only for bathroom breaks and gas fills so as to get to your destination asap is a fairly common scenario. Not sure why you would say it is made up, we do it all the time. We have no interest in giving money to some greasy restaurant along the way when we can bring some ham and some bread for sandwiches. Any reason we must stop, especially stop and spend more money, is a big inconvenience for us.
I'm just not comfortable making such a large purchase for something that might become an impediment if I want to use it in a way that I don't normally do. ie. I don't really care if it is charged for me ready to use 98% of the time if it is going to be absolutely terrible to use for the other 2%. An expensive vehicle for me is all-purpose, not just something that I use to drive to work. Either the prices have to come down on these to around 60% of an ICE to account for the inconvenience or they need to get more convenient.
I'm salaried and my place of work doesn't pay OT. Yet I am expected to jump any time they need me 24/7.
If I'm working long hours, it will be for myself thanks. Keep in mind that Zuck works long hours because he won the lottery and the project he works long hours on is actually something of his own. If a company wants to hire me then they can either appreciate me for the good work I do during my eight hour day or I will take my skills elsewhere.
I agree, until the number of quick charging spots approaches that of gas stations, and by quick charge I mean ten minutes, then it is still a niche product for people with less demanding time constraints on their trips.
A tesla can be charged very slowly anywhere there is an available electrical socket.
But if that electrical socket isn't at some place that you wanted to stop for that long anyway, then it's a pretty big hit to your freedom of where you go. Rather, you are settling to stay over at the place where you can plug in.
What are you talking about? Plenty of gas stations have restaurants. We generally don't want to eat at that restaurant however so we spend five minutes filling up and drive to the restaurant we want to eat at. Or so a rest stop and have a picnic, or just eat on the road.
So you lost freedom about where you stop and this isn't a problem for you? Wow.
Unlikely to happen any time soon because it requires too much standardization between car makers and battery vendors to be viable.
How did we ever end up with all TVs using the same standard coax cable? This whole thing about companies not being able to standardize seems to be a very new thing.
Every living human can also decide to be on welfare instead of participating in the job market. And I can tell you, seeing as so many people are against raising minimum wage even to compensate for inflation, I don't blame people for being on welfare at all. I suspect why the level of people depending on welfare has been increasing for the last 30 years and shows no sign of stopping.
Capitalism IS corporatism.
That's ridiculous. Companies don't get bailed out by governments in capitalism! In true capitalism, we celebrate when companies fail because they get replaced by a greater number of stronger companies.
If Uber wanted to run rickshaws, horse-drawn carriages, canoes and kayaks then I'm sure they would get an exemption for those modes of transportation. As it turns out, automobile transportation tends to be a lot more important in terms of city planning, so that is what the rules are around. Uber is an automobile transportation company so must follow the same rules as other automobile transportation companies in the sense of fairness. It's up to Uber how they make their business model work with the market, and if they were allowed to use 'we don't own cars' as an excuse, after seeing the break Uber gets, all the other companies would find excuses in order to compete on even footing and we would be back to square one anyway.
All the 'general' things you listed don't sound like something that a company would pay top dollar for, though. In fact they sound like things specifically targeted at 'cheaper' workers. So maybe you can pass as a generalist, but you won't be making an awesome living off of it.
With all due respect, I hope you also give a lesson on how to compete with a foreign programmer making $5 a day along with those coding lessons. Otherwise one of your students might get the idea that it is a good thing to base their career on.
So you want the disabled to pay for 'premium' services, while most of them cannot work and are just trying to get by. The government can't pay for it, because so many complain when their taxes go up or are used for a service that has no value to them. Charities are ill-equipped to run a full transport operation. So America turns their backs on these people. Pathetic.
Then you're not a very good driver.
There are many alternatives. America is just too one-demensional to consider them.