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You're confusing the worst case with the average case -- maybe you should instead ask Tesla owners if they're happy with long distance travel? The overwhelming

• Spivak 9y ago
  Duh? The limitations of EVs are known before you buy the car. The people who still choose to buy them is a strict subset of people who are okay with the downsides. Tesla owners are distinctly not representative of the average person's situation.
  • zaroth 9y ago
    mikeash was asking, can you also charge it at home. It's a fair question, since most of the time the overnight home charge is all you need, and even more convenient than going to a gas station. So an EV that can do both is great, an EV that must be filled at a gas station only, that's actually a tricky trade-off, and reasonable to assume a large number of current EV owners would not make that trade-off. In otherwords, if you're adaptable to home charging, then you really want home charging. Makes perfect sense to also observe all current EV owners are adaptable to home charging, by definition. So strictly speaking adding it expands the market to different kinds of EV owners who would treat it like a gas car, just with no direct emissions. If you can add this feature without sacrificing anything else, I'd say that's a very big deal. I assume that in reality this tech is a decade of hard work away from even being usable in an EV, so we'll never see it made.
• ekianjo 9y ago
  > maybe you should instead ask Tesla owners if they're happy with long distance travel? The overwhelming answer is "yes". That's confirmation bias at best. You should ask why folks who don't buy Tesla (and buy cars at the same price point) decided otherwise.