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If he wanted to go that far, he should've taken a train. I realize that the point of this was to test it out but he is flat-out ignoring that extremely few peop

by lagadu 8y ago

If he wanted to go that far, he should've taken a train. I realize that the point of this was to test it out but he is flat-out ignoring that extremely few people here do trips over 200km over once a year, so there's no demand for infrastructure to support that.

jve 8y ago
Everyone is not exaclty like you. Where I live in europe, many people around me do more than 200km ocassionally or often. And when I go on a roadtrip, I notice plenty of cars with registration numbers not from particular country.
- smileysteve 8y ago
  > Everyone is not exaclty like you. > extremely few > many people around me Studies suggest that "extremely few" and "many people around me" is about 10% of car trips. (At least in the U.S., typically more geographically sprawled than much of europe). https://www.fastcompany.com/3062902/electric-vehicles-could-work-for-almost-90-of-car-trips-today https://www.fastcompany.com/3062902/electric-vehicles-could-... So, yes, maybe not everybody can have an electric car and may need to rent a better suited car some % of the time; Maybe that's a partner, a neighbor, a car club. On the bright side, renting a van, truck, land rover for longer trips also reduces the wear on your batteries.
netsharc 8y ago
Where is "here"? Well you could also say the target market for this car is city-commuters, and yeah a very high percentage of time, most car owners don't go hundreds of kms on their trips. It'd be like evaluating a Smart car for road trips: also not fun. To criticize this article as well: she says around Europe but she drove in France and a little bit in Germany. That's... not... around Europe.
icebraining 8y ago
I don't find that true at all, and I live in a small EU country. Multiple coworkers of mine commute more than that every weekends. Trains are great, but they don't reach everywhere roads do.

by lagadu 8y ago

jve 8y ago

Everyone is not exaclty like you. Where I live in europe, many people around me do more than 200km ocassionally or often. And when I go on a roadtrip, I notice plenty of cars with registration numbers not from particular country.

smileysteve 8y ago
> Everyone is not exaclty like you. > extremely few > many people around me Studies suggest that "extremely few" and "many people around me" is about 10% of car trips. (At least in the U.S., typically more geographically sprawled than much of europe). https://www.fastcompany.com/3062902/electric-vehicles-could-work-for-almost-90-of-car-trips-today https://www.fastcompany.com/3062902/electric-vehicles-could-... So, yes, maybe not everybody can have an electric car and may need to rent a better suited car some % of the time; Maybe that's a partner, a neighbor, a car club. On the bright side, renting a van, truck, land rover for longer trips also reduces the wear on your batteries.

netsharc 8y ago

Where is "here"? Well you could also say the target market for this car is city-commuters, and yeah a very high percentage of time, most car owners don't go hundreds of kms on their trips. It'd be like evaluating a Smart car for road trips: also not fun. To criticize this article as well: she says around Europe but she drove in France and a little bit in Germany. That's... not... around Europe.

icebraining 8y ago

I don't find that true at all, and I live in a small EU country. Multiple coworkers of mine commute more than that every weekends. Trains are great, but they don't reach everywhere roads do.