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I'm right there with you. The rate of improvement is much higher for EVs right now than ICE, and it means they [should] lose relative value much faster (covid i

I'm right there with you. The rate of improvement is much higher for EVs right now than ICE, and it means they [should] lose relative value much faster (covid issues aside). I solved this by simply identifying the red lines for me. What can I absolutely not live without for any reason? If I can get those and EV improvements, then I'm in. Sadly EVs cannot give me my hard red line requirement yet: range. My cheap Honda Civic gets me 700km+ on the motorway on a single tank, and it doesn't have optimal charging ranges, nor does it lose a significant amount of range in the cold. I'm waiting for at least 1,000km WLTP range in something like a Model Y before migrating. At current pace this looks to be some time in the next five years.

hedora 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what’s your use case for such a high range? 1,000km is 8-10 hours of uninterrupted driving. You can already go (almost) everywhere in the US with an EV, and the US is more spread out than, say, Europe. Is this range requirement for the Australian outback or something?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y ago
  If you live in Texas that level of range is a pretty hard requirement. Going outside of Houston or the 35 arterial of DFW/Austin/San Antonio still requires that level of range. The rural fast charging infra is coming along, but still not where it needs to be to comfortably drive an EV to a lot of Texas without some careful planning.
- Gareth321 5y ago
  I live in Denmark where it's prohibitively expensive to own two cars. This is common for most of Europe. So our one car needs to handle not just daily commuting (where an EVs excel), but also the longer trips we regularly take to other countries. These are easily 1,000+km and an EV would add 2-3+ hours to the already long trip. EVs make a lot more sense when a family can own 2-3 cars and they can rotate their commute car with their road trip car.

hedora 5y ago

Out of curiosity, what’s your use case for such a high range? 1,000km is 8-10 hours of uninterrupted driving. You can already go (almost) everywhere in the US with an EV, and the US is more spread out than, say, Europe. Is this range requirement for the Australian outback or something?

SOLAR_FIELDS 5y ago
If you live in Texas that level of range is a pretty hard requirement. Going outside of Houston or the 35 arterial of DFW/Austin/San Antonio still requires that level of range. The rural fast charging infra is coming along, but still not where it needs to be to comfortably drive an EV to a lot of Texas without some careful planning.
Gareth321 5y ago
I live in Denmark where it's prohibitively expensive to own two cars. This is common for most of Europe. So our one car needs to handle not just daily commuting (where an EVs excel), but also the longer trips we regularly take to other countries. These are easily 1,000+km and an EV would add 2-3+ hours to the already long trip. EVs make a lot more sense when a family can own 2-3 cars and they can rotate their commute car with their road trip car.