• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Our hybrids both having battery failures is personal experience, not Republican talking points.

    But the great thing about hybrids is that they still work if the battery fails. And I can put enough fuel to drive 300 miles in at a gas station for the same price as paying for a level 3 charger that’ll take 10 times as long.

    I would love to have an electric, but it doesn’t make sense for me or many others who rent when a hybrid is cheaper to buy, just as cheap to drive when you don’thave a hime charger, and doesn’t depend on a $15,000 part that can’t be serviced by the owner.

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        9 hours ago

        That’s absolutely not true. The starter battery is lead-acid, but those don’t move the car.

        A standard group 27 lead acid used just to start a car’s engine weighs like 70 pounds. One big enough to actually drive it any distance would weigh literal tons.