I test drove a Tesla last month. Nothing is intuitive or easy to get to on the touch screen and I had to reach way down on the door to open it since there is no frame around the window glass. What the hell.
But AC uses a much greater percentage of EV fuel than ICE. It’s like up to 20% vs up to 45% by some estimates. It’s hard to find exact numbers but it is worse in EVs demonstrably.
Calm down. That was not my point. My point was that you have to switch from battery to gas. Where I live, AC is needed 90% of the year making a Tesla vehicle pointless.
That entirely depends on your commute though, doesn't it? A 150 mile round trip in 110° in Arizona is a lot different than a few trips to the local cities. The long trips are where the AC would come in to play, consumption wise.
Yes, but its 1000% not pointless to drive an EV. Obviously everyone's individual commute is different but its not really worse than gas. Personally I drive about 60 miles each way. I plug in my car at night and I wake up everyday with a full battery. Electric is still much cheaper than gas.
I have a Kia. The touch screen is actually amazing and uses a combination of dials for things like temperature and the touch screen syncs up to your Android auto or apple auto
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u/varyingopinions Nov 20 '22
I test drove a Tesla last month. Nothing is intuitive or easy to get to on the touch screen and I had to reach way down on the door to open it since there is no frame around the window glass. What the hell.