I got a Nissan Leaf last year (used, paid 8,000 USD for one with 25,000 miles on it) and am a very happy camper, drive 20 miles a day and have no range issues at all. I got some pushback from my Facebook friends, though, when I posted about it. There is, it seems, a lot of anti-electric car propaganda out there. Just in the last week or so I saw:
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Inconvenient-Truth-About-Electric-Vehicles.htmland
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/14/sorry-tesla-owners-but-your-electric-car/As far as fighting back against this, some of the arguments are easy.
1.When they talk about how much carbon it put up by the manufacture of the car, I point out what a trivial point this is- EVERYTHING now made is made using mostly fossil fuels. My electric car may have been made by putting up a bunch of CO2 but as the grid grows greener, this problem goes away bit by bit. By getting an electric car I am participating in the future.
2. When they say how I am just redirecting my CO2 to a power plant when I drive, I point to the solar panels on my roof and also point out that my local grid (New Orleans) uses very little electricity from coal. Most importantly, the grid in the future will only get greener and greener but we are stuck with gasmobile emissions for the life of the car once you buy one of those.
But I have a tougher time fighting against people like "zerohedge" on oilprice.com who just pulls some numbers out of his *** about how much more natural gas it takes to charge an electric car than it would to power the car directly. This doesn't jibe with what I get from other sources like:
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-cars-greenOTOH this usually turns into just a "who do you trust" argument and I have a hard time running the numbers myself. I got inspiration, though, from reading the comment thread on the oilprice article, some people on there did a good job pointing out how selective "zerohedge" is in his use of, you know, numbers.
Hope this is appropriate to this thread, possibly this has come up before, thoughts, links, would be appreciated.