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> meaning if you don’t have a Tesla you either simply can’t make trips beyond a single-charge round-trips You’re overestimating how many people make road trips
by chronic83027 5y ago
> meaning if you don’t have a Tesla you either simply can’t make trips beyond a single-charge round-trips
You’re overestimating how many people make road trips > 200 miles.
Most Americans never leave their hometown, with an even higher percentage who never left their state.
For the middle class family who drives to visit grandma once a year in a different state, they’ll just use their ICE car.
- notJim 5y ago> Most Americans never leave their hometown This can't possibly be right. Maybe they never move away, but never leave a radius of 200 miles from their home town? Do you have a cite for that?
- rootusrootus 5y agoForbes [0] claims 11% have never left their state, but it doesn't cite a number for people who have never left their town. It has to be smaller, of course. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-of-americans-who-never-traveled-beyond-the-state-where-they-were-born-a-surprise/?sh=5f96adf12898 https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-o...
- masklinn 5y agoMeaning 89% have left their state, to say nothing of their hometown. So GP is totally wrong. Not to mention there are many states you might not get out of in 200 miles. 200 miles from the Californian coast is still Cali unless you’re at the northern or southern edges.
- amalcon 5y agoYeah, 200 miles is under a 4hr drive. That's just not considered very far in the US. Most people don't make a trip like that every day, but not even once?
- exhilaration 5y agoOr rent an ICE car, that's always going to be an option.