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To add on to this: his whole argument about range not mattering assumes that there is an easy place to plug the car into every night, something that is not true
by sjm-lbm 5y ago
To add on to this: his whole argument about range not mattering assumes that there is an easy place to plug the car into every night, something that is not true for most people that live in an apartment (and could be true for many people that rent their homes and don't have a pre-existing place to plug the car in).
Nontrivial amounts of cars don't overnight anywhere near an outlet, and that particular use case is not handled very well by existing electric cars at all.
- ogjunkyard 5y agoYou are correct that it's very hard to find an apartment with access to an outlet, but it's less of an issue than you would think. Having owned a Tesla in San Francisco and street-parking it for 2 years without access to a charger, I treated it much like one would with a gas-powered car: I went to the charging station about once every week or so and "filled up". The only inconvenience is that it took longer to recharge the car than to fill up an ICE vehicle. Everything else was the same basically. I never found myself in a position where I couldn't charge the car. After I moved to a place where I had access to an everyday power outlet (120v, like you'd plug a desk lamp into), it pretty much eliminated my trips to the charging station. The ONLY time it was every a question was when I took a trip to visit family in a rural part of the country where the closest supercharger at the time was 2+ hours away. My family doesn't do a lot of driving, so it was easy for us to just plug my car in and I had no problem leaving. I ended up putting about 40k miles on the Tesla before I sold it, and I have no qualms about getting another electric vehicle.