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No, actually not. That's the point. People vastly overestimate how far they drive regularly, or even ever. It really is a mental thing.
by EdHominem 10y ago
No, actually not. That's the point.
People vastly overestimate how far they drive regularly, or even ever. It really is a mental thing.
- recursive 10y agoIt's a deal breaker if your car can only go as far as you "regularly" drive if it fails when you drive farther than that.
- EdHominem 10y agoNo, that's the silly all-or-nothing thinking I'm talking about. What if you only want to go further once a year? What's the cost of a one-time 30m wait to refuel instead of a 5m wait? I think it'd be far less than the benefit of no refueling wait the other 364 days of the year. Also, the cost isn't infinite. If you were, for instance, totally unable to drive the electric car to the ski hill for your vacation you could rent another car, so worst-case you're out like $200 which is far less than you'd save in fuel the rest of the year. Most people simply get stuck on the costs instead of being able to amortize them across the whole period and weigh them against the benefits.