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I'm with you, but I sleep 8 hours a night. I'm generally home 12 hours at a minimum. If the car charges in less than 6 hours, it's doable. 250 mile daily limit
by electromagnetic 15y ago
I'm with you, but I sleep 8 hours a night. I'm generally home 12 hours at a minimum. If the car charges in less than 6 hours, it's doable.
250 mile daily limit is pretty good, that's 6+ hours of driving at average city speed limits.
Personally if I'm taking a trip, I'd likely get a rental and put the miles and liability on someone else. I wouldn't like to be driving my own vehicle with my own guests doing a trip from Ontario to Florida or PEI and blow a tire, or worse and it land on my insurance. I like the fact that I can sue the car rental company for up to $10 million, when I can only sue my own insurance for up to $1 million.
- wisty 15y agoYou don't need a pick-up truck, just because you might need to move some furniture every few months. You don't need a car with a long range, just because you might want to go on a road trip once a year. You can rent. I grew up about 100 miles from the nearest decent-sized city. You couldn't use a Tesla there, because you couldn't head to the city every time you got bored and had a spare day (well, technically you could, but you wouldn't want to cut things too fine). But if you live in a big city, and are unlikely to go on long trips more than a few times a year, electric would be fine.
- rdl 15y agoThe 230 and 300 mile Teslas are perfect for large metro area use (like SFBA, metro Seattle, LA, etc.). I still think most people buying $50-70k cars in general, and especially Teslas, are likely to actually own another car (either in a 2-car 2-driver household, or just by keeping their gas/diesel and augmenting it with a Tesla), vs. renting. It might depend on garage space more than anything.