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I'm sorry but I can't afford to own two+ vehicles, one for urban, one for long range. For the purposes of the article, 'long range' equals one tank of gas (~25
by smush 8y ago
I'm sorry but I can't afford to own two+ vehicles, one for urban, one for long range.
For the purposes of the article, 'long range' equals one tank of gas (~250 miles in my 90s SUV) for an ICE. I am behind the concept of EVs in general, but IMHO they aren't quite practical for suburban (which is in EV terms in long range territory) usage. (yet!)
- adrianN 8y agoIf you drive more than 100 miles per day more often than once a month, then an EV is probably not for you. Otherwise you can just rent a car for the days where you need the range. Just like you rent a transporter when you buy new furniture instead of driving one every day to the office.
- magduf 8y agoYou don't need a vehicle for long range travel: when you want to do that, you either fly or take a train. What, your country doesn't have good trains for intercity transport? Maybe you should work on that.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago...have you seen our country? It's nice that Europe is dense enough to use trains, but let's not pretend that your solutions scale.
- magduf 8y agoThe northeast US is more dense than Europe.
- username90 8y agoThat is a bad excuse, USA is denser than Sweden yet Sweden still has enough trains that you don't have to take cars between basically all cities with more than 10k inhabitants, even those in the mostly depopulated Swedish north.
- prostoalex 8y agoUSA also holds a dubious record of building the most expensive rail in the world https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html?_r=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
- zdragnar 8y agoWhat, your country doesn't have 20% of its population living in idyllic rural areas that cover 97% of your nearly 4 million square miles of land? Let's not pretend that what works for some people will work for everyone. It would be beyond unfeasible to take a plane or train everywhere I typically go in a given month, and 100mi range would be pretty dicey, especially when it gets brutally cold in winter and I need extra power to get heat and get through snow on the roads.
- gumby 8y ago> What, your country doesn't have 20% of its population living in idyllic rural areas that cover 97% of your nearly 4 million square miles of land? Still, getting around on the east coast is absurd, though somehow the Europeans and Japanese manage it under similar conditions. In an environment where high speed rail would be superior to air travel there are 0 lines[+]. In the west I agree the "travel density" is minor except in the SF-LA region which is both being developed and tying the Central Valley into the wealthier areas. The real reason is that the US has the most highly developed rail freight transport system in the world. Passenger trains lease access to those lines and must work around freight (including having passengers stop and wait). [+] yes I have used the amusingly-named "Acela".
- DeonPenny 8y agoWouldn't work in america. It's no dense enough. Which is why people poor money into automated cars. It makes way more sense for america.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoHow often do you actually drive these long distances? At some point it's much less expensive to just rent a car when you need to travel that far.
- Marsymars 8y agoWell personally, the overwhelming majority of my driving km are longer distances. I work from home, and mostly use my car to carpool to ski hills in the winter, and crags and trailheads in the summer.
- prostoalex 8y agoOne problem with that approach is that those long distance trips tend to coincide with everybody else in America taking those long distance trips (Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, end of school year) with surge prices for rentals as a result.