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Originally Posted by triangles
...My addiction deepens, the Model 3 is an absolute game changer. I cannot go back to ICE. To me an ICE vehicle seems almost as antiquated and quaint as a horse carriage. Not only does model 3 represent an "equivalent" replacement for a gasoline car, It is superior to an ICE car in almost every way:
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- silence... no noisy engine drowning out your music.
- fuel is about 1/3 the cost compared to my old 4cyl econobox.
As an added bonus the power and instant torque makes it feel like a super car when all you have ever driven is 4cyl econoboxes.
...Essentially the model 3 represents the first vehicle than can comparably replace a gasoline car. The only con is the price premium. In another decade with battery cost decreasing, when EVs become available with 300+ mile ranges and cost $20K-$30K. That will be the final nail in the coffin for ICE cars. At that point EVs will be the same or cheaper to buy, far cheaper to fuel, far easier and cheaper to maintain having a significantly less TCO. That is when the ICE will finally go the way of the horse carriage. We are at the beginning of the end. The interesting thing will be to see how long it takes.
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Well we find ourselves at odds in our addictions and how we enjoy a "drive" around town. I LOVE the sounds out of my small block Chevy V8 LT1 from the upshifts to the downshifts. I love the sensations of feeling the engine idle almost perfectly. The noise is my therapy and helps me relax while others feel the need to blow by me in a 30 mph speed zone or doing more then 10 over the expressway speed limit. I just enjoy the soft rumble of 8 mechanical cylinders compressing a gasoline mixture with air and then being pushed down from the controlled explosion.
My other thrill comes from the growl of opening up the throttle and letting my car accelerate down the road. This will soon be improved when I adapt a Tuned Port Injection intake manifold onto my LT1 with some other engine build upgrades that are still mild and factory level performance for the same if not improved mileage around town and hopefully if I can get a GM belted alternator starter system added to the engine to enable start-stop.
No, I don't see ICE vehicles going away anytime soon! Assuming, however, I am literally forced to, I would rather convert my F-body over to pure electric then buy anything new. However, that is a very extreme circumstance that I would dread. A silent car is boring without those other sensations. I bet I can't even sense and hear the wheels slipping, for lack of higher revs indication, sensation, and sound, in snow as well unlike with an ICE set-up.