Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "5 Reasons You Should (Not) Buy An Electric Car" video.

  1. I live in a seasonally snowy climate and there's no need to get a car wash. The only reasons I can think of are road salt and cosmetics. Even without car washes the undercoating seems to do its job for over 150 kmi (240 thousand km). Cosmetics, that will always work against convenience no matter what you drive.
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  2.  @extreme8808  US and Europe use different metrics for octane ratings. The US uses (R+M)/2 while Europe uses RON. Our standard 87 octane in the US is equivalent to 92 in Europe and our 'premium' 93 is 97 in Europe. It's really only a minor difference. E85 is around 95 octane in the US and around 103 in Europe, but this is really only 15% gasoline. And no, this isn't a case of us using 'wrong' units like feet instead of meters for no apparent reason when measuring the same physical quantity. RON and MON are different measurements in the same way that liters and kilograms are different measurements.
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  3. Solar generation is already cheaper than fossil fuel for new generation capacity and is steadily getting cheaper over time due to Swanson's law. If renewables aren't your thing, nuclear is cleaner than fossil fuel while costing about the same and being safer overall. Modern nuclear plants are nothing like Chernobyl's.
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