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I think the progress on EVs are amazing - I was poking fun at "long-range". It is more about my personal situation than preference. I can't drive a Tesla from

I think the progress on EVs are amazing - I was poking fun at "long-range". It is more about my personal situation than preference. I can't drive a Tesla from my house to a Supercharger station. I'd have take a slow charge somewhere - or a tow truck. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation. So for me and many others "long-range" continues to be an oxymoron. Someday range will increase and I'll have to decide if it makes sense for me or not - but it this point it isn't even a possibility. Until long-range means keeping up with an average gas/diesel car, it isn't long enough for many. Tesla is much more likely to be able to sell me a power wall than a car. I could use one or two of those.

jameshart 9y ago
Regarding "I can't drive a Tesla from my house to a Supercharger station. I'd have take a slow charge somewhere - or a tow truck. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation." If you're located in the lower 48 states of the US, you're definitely one of a very, very small number of people in that situation - the map on https://www.tesla.com/supercharger https://www.tesla.com/supercharger claims they've pretty much got the map covered these days - though Hawaii and Alaska are out of luck. It looks like North Dakota might still be underserved right now, but pretty much everywhere is within a couple of hundred miles of a station. Fact is, though, that a vanishingly small number of people are living in places that far from charging infrastructure, mechanics, or frankly, the places they need to drive to regularly.