For sure, and I agree, I’m all for being nice to the environment, it is a good thing no doubt, I was actually going to build up a bio diesel rig years ago and seriously looked into using the river by my place and different window treatments etc to try to get my place off “the grid”, the cold math just didn’t make sense in my particular situation, with my exact house and location.
My issue is the religious like cult that “green” has become, I mean questinging ethanol or EVs or climate prediction models that fell short, or whatever is treated like legit blasphemy by some folks. I also know many of these “green” products are very much a $$$ industry and thus some people have conflicts of interest.
I can recall a few conversations I had some some hardcore environment folks who were talking all the stuff you hear on the news, driving Prius and all, but when I asked them about what their position was on the tons of salt on the roads, even when it’s too cold to help, or Canada dumping raw sewage into the river, or why we still push ethanol, or a few other things, they didn’t have much info on those subjects with are right in their own backyard.
When science turns to a religion like cause I think we loose sight of the real meat and tatters of the issue
I was thinking about a plug-in hybrid a few months back, but the math didn't work out. But before I came to that conclusion, I talked it over with some kids at SUNY Delhi (they have a pretty good automotive program) to get their advice. They treated me like some kind of messiah: an older guy with a gray beard who wanted to be "green."
Not being one to accept accolades I don't deserve, I told them I cared more about saving money on fuel than about whatever infinitesimal difference in emissions the car would generate.
You'd have thought I'd suddenly developed leprosy. I went from hero to villain in a second flat. It didn't matter that I was considering
doing something that they believed, at least, would be good for Mother Earth. I also had to
believe as they did for my
doing to mean anything.
That's religion. It's even in the Bible:
Paul the Apostle said:
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. (Romans 3:27-28)
Now, just because it's religion doesn't mean it's wrong. I'll keep my thoughts about climate change to myself to avoid politicizing this thread, but I will say that I'm somewhere in the middle. What's problematic about it is that it clouds more objective analysis (such as the total acquisition and operating cost of the car and its overall reliability) when the person you're talking to has some religiously-based vested interest in the purchase.
For me, once I did the math, it simply didn't make economic sense.
The OP's vehicle, however, might have. It has about twice the EV range of the Niro PUH, which would make a
huge difference in my gasoline use while still preserving the ability to make 300-mile trips without having to plan three or four hours of twiddling my thumbs in a gas station waiting for the car to charge into the itinerary.
Moreover, with the $300.00 fast charger and a couple of hours labor running the wiring, I could fully charge overnight when the electric rates are much lower, and the car would always be ready in the morning.
The OP's Honda also would allow me to extend my EV radius out to the first ring from center, what I call Greater Sparrow Fart, rather than only the Village of Sparrow Fart itself. In practical terms, that would mean that the great majority of my trips would be doable on all or almost-all electricity.
Even the next ring out would be doable one-way on all or almost all electricity (and maybe the return trip if I could mooch some juice on the other end, assuming I was going to be there long enough).
So yeah, this car has my interest. That's not to say I'm going to run out and buy one, but I can say that I probably would have if I'd known about it when I was in that mood.
Rich
