Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car?

Waldowal@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 227 points –

I need a new car, and I really want to go full electric. I'm wondering if anyone regrets buying one? What are the downsides?

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A coworker had a problem with one that decided to do a software update in a parking lot that ended up bricking the car. After that, they went back to a gas powered car.

OTA updates are not an EV thing. That is all modern cars.

Sadly, that can happen with a modern ICE car, too.

I mean modern ICE cars can have this same problem.

My boss has a Land Rover that was in the middle of an OTA update at one point in the first few months he owned it. Wouldn't start and appeared basically dead, and he didn't know it was updating. He had it towed to the dealer and it had finished the update by the time it got there.

Enough to brick the car from starting?

I have an older car I don't have any experience with that.

For real. Id like to see any article where an ICE was bricked and couldn't even drive simply by an update.

Holy crap. That's an expensive software update. Did the manufacturer provide any kind of remuneration?

Nope

Your coworker should be able to sue them then.

I saw someone on the news talking about having a friend whose family member had an EV, and they also had a bad experience. I think they were just complaining that their electricity was expensive though.