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Electric Vehicles Pros and Cons, Tesla, Rimac, Rivian. Should You Buy an EV?
Jul 5, 2023
Why are electric vehicles so popular? How is an electric car made? How green are EVs? In this video, PissedConsumer.com interviews an electric vehicle enthusiast and auto expert @ElectricSuperCar to find answers to consumers' top concerns and questions about EVs. 00:00 - Introduction 00:40 - About @ElectricSuperCar 01:24 - Why are electric cars so interesting today? 02:06 - What is the expert’s favorite electric vehicle? 02:23 - EV lower carbon footprint. Is it low? 03:47 - Top concerns when buying an electric car 05:34 - The battery life of an electric vehicle 06:16 - EV brands 07:21 - Typical complaints about electric cars 08:42 - About EV industry 10:15 - Are electric vehicles easier to build? 11:44 - Will the price of EV drop? 12:42 - Expert tips about electric vehicles Check the consumers' feedback before purchasing an electric vehicle: https://www.pissedconsumer.com/browse-reviews.html?query=electric+vehicles&redirect=1 Subscribe to Pissed Consumer social media accounts: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PissedConsumerCom/
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I am Jeremy. I have a YouTube channel called Electric Supercar. On my channel, I build
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drive, and race electric cars. So I'm just finishing up my first build and about to start
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my second one. I use, I'll call them salvage parts, so parts from wrecked cars, like a wrecked
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Tesla. I'll take the drive unit. I took batteries from a Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivan
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So again, just building my own electric cars. Thank you for joining our channel
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My name is Michael Kavilsky. I am chief executive officer with Consumer
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How did you come about to do that? Are you an electrical engineer, electrical mechanic
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Why did you start doing it? No, I just like cars. I was always on the lookout to build a car
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And I looked at a lot of kit cars, things like that. And for me, it was really just looking at the drivetrain so you could build these fancy looking kit cars, but the power plant was like a Honda Accord or a Subaru engine
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And again, those are fine. They're just not kind of high end. And so I stumbled across doing the similar thing with an electric motors, with a Tesla motor
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I just thought, man, that's for me. That's what it's all about
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Why are electric cars so interesting today? Well, I think it's a large part due to, I'll call it the no emissions
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I think that's kind of really catching on. I think a lot of consumers are trying to figure out how to reduce their carbon footprints, how to be a little more environmentally friendly
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For me, I really like the instant torque. I think that's just something you can't get with the internal combustion engine
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And so I think there's a lot of things. I think people see it as the way of the future
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So I think, again, if you watch like the last Super Bowl, I think there's like eight different ads for electric vehicles from lots of the major brands
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So I think the market's really tending to go that way. What is your favorite electric vehicle today
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It's like the Remak, Nevera. That's like, you know, supercar, hypercar sort of thing
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So I don't know if that one really counts. I really like the Rivian, you know, for a truck
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I think that's really cool. Electric cars, consumers like lower carbon footprint
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Is it really lower? That's a great question. There's also, I'll say, even how you manufacture the car
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So meaning it takes a lot more carbon emissions to make an electric vehicle, particularly the batteries
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And so there's questions about, well, how green are the electric cars
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and if you kind of offset you know so after an electric car is made and then after a internal
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combustion car is made if you kind of then go forward and say okay at what points if if you
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start off with the electric vehicle being a little less green how how long do you have to drive it or
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own it before it kind of breaks even or even is a lot better than internal combustion engine and so
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So I've looked at some data and it's around about 30,000 miles is where you'd break even
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And that just because the energy that goes into the car it still emitting CO2 emissions just making the energy depending on how you source your energy
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But compared to the internal combustion engine, that's kind of your crossover point where you start actually having a much greener vehicle
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So as long as you plan to drive it for 30,000 miles or about two years, that's better for the environment
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If someone is interested to purchase an electric vehicle, what they should be aware of, what's your recommendations
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Yeah, so I think if somebody's thinking about purchasing an electric vehicle, I would say it's not a lot different than purchasing a gas-powered vehicle
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So, I mean, your still primary concerns are going to be things like, you know, how many seats, if it's all-wheel drive, cargo space, cup holders
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The only thing different is, I'll say, the range, so meaning how far you can go before you need to fill up
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So that's kind of probably the biggest thing that you would need to kind of look at. As you mentioned, there's also do you want to fill up or charge at home or do you want to charge at work or public chargers
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So there's lots of different places to do that. I think it's pretty convenient to do at home
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But, yeah, those are some things to consider when looking to purchase an electric vehicle
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Are there disadvantages of electric vehicles that you can speak about? The number one thing for consumers, I would call it the fear of range
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So I think for internal combustion cars, people just get in their car and go
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And if it's like, oh, my gosh, I'm empty. There's gas corners on every street corner
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So I think there's a big concern for consumers like, oh, my gosh, I've got 100 miles left
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How far can I go or where do I need to fill up and how long is that going to take
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So I think the fear of range, the time it takes to kind of charge or fill up, I would say other things that are disadvantages
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I would say some of the purists feel like you're missing out on the driving experience
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You know, there's no noise, no shifting. I would also say there's a higher initial cost
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So if you wanted to get a very comparable gas powered vehicle, they're typically a little less expensive
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What is typical battery life on electrical vehicle? So we are still, I'll call it, in the early stages of the data, meaning Tesla is probably the oldest company that's been out there
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And the very first time they put out the Model S was, I think, in 2012
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So it's only about 10 years of data, and that's just Tesla
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So some of the other brands are a little bit newer. but there's reports that say that the capacity retention of the Tesla batteries are still around 90% even after 200,000 miles of usage
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So there's quite a bit of life left in the electric vehicles and 200,000 miles, that's a lot of miles for any car
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Are you interested to talk about any particular brands, Teslas, or you prefer not to mention cars by brands
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I haven't done like test drives and things to tell you, hey, this is a good car. This is not
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What I would say is if you're considering buying an electric car, consider the brand
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And when I say that, think about the companies that invest in electric vehicles
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So you think about a company like Tesla. They didn't just make an electric car and say, here you go
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They said wait people one of their biggest challenges is charging and this fear of range You know what we going to outfit the entire United States with all these superchargers to make it easier to really have the consumers be more at ease in buying and using their electric vehicles
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So a company like that is going to be kind of behind and really support electric vehicles
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A company like Rivian, again, all they make is electric vehicles. I'm not saying that any of the
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other companies are not like that, but just remember that they're diverse and they're serving
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other customers as well as the electric customers. What are the typical complaints you hear from
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electrical vehicle owners? I think one of the biggest ones is probably, I'll call it charge time
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So again, coming from a gas-powered vehicle, I'm having to go fill up my tank from empty to full
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in five minutes, it's good. Electric vehicle, it can take an hour or hours. And so it's just
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I'll call it a different mindset. You kind of have to think about it like, obviously
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charging your phone. So if you just plug your phone in at night, it's going to be pretty much good all for the next day. But people really in the past have not thought about putting gas in
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their car all during the night. They think of, okay, when it's empty, I'm going to go to the
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gas station. So I think that's probably one of the biggest complaints is the charge time
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As far as use and maintenance, any complaints there? I would kind of say the other way around. So maintenance is amazing. So there is like no oil
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changes. There's no transmission fluid. Again, so maintenance is way easier for an electric vehicle
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Studies say you save about $1,000 a year just in maintenance costs for an electric vehicle over
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a gas-powered vehicle. So maintenance is really good. What was the other part of the question
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What's your opinion on the industry as a whole? The United States built what we've had five
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major brands, major companies that were producing gas-powered cars. What's your view on EVs? Are
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we going to have also five big players in the future? Are we going to have smaller manufacturers
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of electric vehicles? How do you think it's going to look? The future of electric vehicles
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I think it's really swinging hard that way. So I think the governments of the world
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were all about trying to reduce emissions and kind of setting limits for miles per gallon
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how efficient the vehicles need to be. And so a lot of the car manufacturers
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were really struggling to say, how can we make our gas-powered engines
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so fuel efficient and yet still meet the demands of the customer
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because a lot of customers want an SUV or they want a car that goes fast
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And those are really challenging for low emissions and high mileage sorts of situations
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So, yeah, as I mentioned before, man, the Super Bowl had all these ads from all major companies saying, hey, we're going electric
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And so I think all of all the companies are, I think, striving to catch up
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I think Tesla was kind of leading the way. Now everybody's coming out with electric vehicles, Kia, Mercedes, BMW, they all have their offerings
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pump system. Yep. And you've got transmission and clutch. And, you know, so there's a lot of
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different systems that are all working in harmony for gas powered vehicles. So again, lots of extra
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things that can go wrong and a lot of things. So if you're building a car, yeah, you're just
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balancing a lot of different things. So when you say easier electric, I think it's, I would say
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it's kind of more straightforward, but at the same time, it's challenging, meaning like if your
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computer is not working, it takes a specialist to kind of know how to get your computer working
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right? If some pump isn't working, you know, if I'm an electric or sorry, in a gas car
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if a pump or some other gear isn't working, it's pretty easy to kind of take it apart and say
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okay, this is what the problem is. Electrical, it's a little more like code and
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can network systems, a lot of electrons talking to each other. And if that's not working, that's a lot more challenging to get working
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In the future, say five years from now, production will be able to produce enough cars to cover demand
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Prices for electrical vehicles will start dropping. Yes, I agree. Yeah, I think if you look at, say, like the computer or microchip industry, if you're
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starting to design a new computer, you don't design a computer with components
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you have today, you design it with the components that are going to be available in nine months or a
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year. And so if there's a hard drive or some processor, you don't design for what's available
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now, you design for what's going to be available in 12 months. And so I think electric cars are the
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same way where I think battery technology, lots of those sorts of things are going to really
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progress rapidly. And so I think those who are designing cars now, they're not designing for the
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batteries that exist now. They're going to design for the batteries that exist, you know, a year or
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several years from now. So I think that is really going to expedite the development of electric
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vehicles. Anything that you would suggest to consumers? Well, I would just say if anybody's
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hesitant to kind of buy one, I would just say drive one, rent one for a week, see what you think
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It is quite a different experience. I think it's great. I mean, they handle really well in the snow
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especially if you kind of got the dual motors. But yeah, I think if you're hesitant, just
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just try it. I think one of the great things is not going to a gas station. You don't realize
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you know, that gas stations aren't awesome until you don't go to them for like a year. And then
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when you go back, it's like, oh my gosh, I used to do this all the time. So, you know, standing
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out in the cold, smelling all those fumes, it's like, yeah, I just go home and plug in and wake
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up with full tanks. So I think there's lots of good advantages. Again, better for the environment
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less pollutants, things like that. So I would just say try it. It's not for everybody
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but that's a good way to see if it's for you
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