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I mean, impressive mileage - but you must definitely be an outlier with those numbers in single trips I'd imagine. Also, if you're only do those kinds of number
by wastedhours 6y ago
I mean, impressive mileage - but you must definitely be an outlier with those numbers in single trips I'd imagine. Also, if you're only do those kinds of numbers a few weeks a year, you could have an electric car for 50 weeks of the year and then hire a diesel one for the longer stints?
That being said, it'll only be a couple more generations of tech before we're getting fast charge in the 15-20 minute ranges. By the time you've done a full-tank fill, used the toilets, picked up a few Rom bars in the shop and paid - you probably wont lose much time.
(I'm still a car lover, but change is coming, and it'd be hard to argue with it in a few more years).
- bluGill 6y agoThe fixed costs of owning two cars means that it rarely works out. Rental cars can work, but again the math rarely works out because it is so expensive to rent a large car.
- jfk13 6y agoI also worry that in the hypothetical world where most people just own a small electric for local daily use, and rent a large diesel (or whatever) for the family holiday, demand for those larger, longer-range vehicles will be extremely seasonal. It may not be viable to maintain a large fleet of family-vacation-type vehicles just to satisfy the demand for summer holidays in August and ski trips in February.
- wastedhours 6y agoI did mention rental, 100% agree owning two would be absurd. For rentals, it might end up being more expensive now, but that's not really my point, the daily practicality (both in fuel savings lugging around a huge car for 50 extra weeks a year) and in ease of having a smaller, easier to manoeuvre, potentially cheaper to maintain electric car are not only on a cost basis. This is merely an interstitial time until you can run from Bucharest to Leipzig with fast charge stations in every town and village along the route.