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50 miles is more than enough for a car with a gasoline backup tank for most use cases. Average car users use below 50 almost every single day. Something like 98
by rhino369 11y ago
50 miles is more than enough for a car with a gasoline backup tank for most use cases. Average car users use below 50 almost every single day. Something like 98-98% of trips are under 50 miles. 95% of people commute less than 40 miles.
Adding more weight and room for only a small percent of rides is probably less efficient (economically and ecologically) than just popping into gas for 5% of trips.
- blisterpeanuts 11y agoPerhaps that was the results of their analysis, I don't know. I used to have a 27 mile commute in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, so even the 53-mile range might not have been sufficient. Every extra 10 miles you add to the range will make the vehicle that much more useful for a wider category of drivers (in terms of staying in electric mode and avoiding burning gasoline). At some point perhaps they see it as diminishing returns, except that really when it comes to electric vehicles, the more range the better.
- Grishnakh 11y agoOh please. If the gas engine has to come on for the last couple miles of your commute, what's the problem? You're still only using a tiny amount of gas for a 54-mile commute. That's the whole point of cars like this: most of your trips fit within that range, or just barely outside it, so your overall gas usage is almost nothing.