Have ya see much difference between Chinese EVs and European ones? I'd like to get me a BYD but it seems very expensive here.

I leased an Ioniq 5 SEL for three years and loved it (other than it being an SUV).

When the lease ran out, I bought a used 2024 Ioniq 6 SE which has 360 mile range and almost every feature of the SEL. It was super cheap and it suits me even better than the Ioniq 5.

It's probably worth checking out if you like EVs.

I have a 2019 Nissan Leaf and it was manufactured at the perfect in between time of still having physical buttons, without the surveillance tech inside, while also having the 'basic' fancy features like Android Auto, backup can, etc.

I think ideally, I would have liked am EV conversion kit for my 2006 Scion xB, but it wasn't in the cards at the time.

It does seem like the physical buttons are making a comeback.

One of the reasons I got my BYD was because of the clicky buttons. Yes, I have the big touchscreen, but all the car controls have a clicky button that I can feel and touch without looking at a screen. Hell, even for the things that don't have a clicky button (like A/C temperature) you only need to swipe up or down with three fingers on any part of the screen to adapt it so there is nothing you need to find in the screen to drive the car.

Sounds like your next car is going to be a bike then

Except for the ones who park in the garage, close the door, and leave the engine running to escape the pain of existence.

Yes. Drivers.

But the online mediasphere is chock-full of EV haters regurgitating propaganda about how they’re worse for the environment, the posters suddenly care about child labor in foreign countries, and then there’s the regressive mentally 14 year old tools who can’t handle a car that doesn’t spew noise and exhaust everywhere to make people look at them because that’s a real car. But none of them have owned an EV.

I’m a big car fan, but the majority of car fans are backwards and stubborn. They can’t stand the idea of EV, they have to have the ability to make stupid power with lots of noise to drive to the mall. Thing is there’s room for both EV and ICE cars. They need to get a grip and stop hyperbolizing that it’s a binary choice, ICE is going to be around for a good while longer.

There’s a car site for leaks and industry news called Auto Spies that just constantly shits on EVs. They used to be good for breaking new car info, but now they have a massively right slant on everything.

Facebook, according to the original headline. But I changed it because I knew I'd be getting 5 different comments from people getting hung up on the 'Facebook' part.

I've seen YouTube videos of those car sales guys talking to customers and then regretting getting an EV because of the distance and lack of charging stations and stuff.

How many of videos are real and all that, I have no idea. Also, most of those customers are rolling negative equity and stuff so not a great judgment.