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People in areas like I grew up in often drive >100mi in a day since the nearest WalMart and decent chain restaurants are >30mi away. Major cities are 150mi away
by TexanFeller 4y ago
People in areas like I grew up in often drive >100mi in a day since the nearest WalMart and decent chain restaurants are >30mi away. Major cities are 150mi away. My parents are currently driving around 250mi every single week day to get medical treatments in the city and will need to for the next few weeks. A hotel would save them that drive time, but driving is cheaper than that, so that's what they do. They wouldn't "charge while they stop to eat" because restaurants are much more expensive than their brown bag lunch they took.
- dashundchen 4y ago80% of the US lives in urbanized areas and a good chunk of the remaining 20% live in relatively close proximity to urbanized areas. Rural areas in the east and Great Lakes are mostly not far from metros. People like your parents are edge cases, although even their daily medical trip is just about feasible with an EV today. The number of people living in very rural West Texas or southwest are relatively small (and the mountain west is rapidly urbanizing unfortunately). EVs don't have to meet every use case just like an ICE diesel pickup truck or a steel crusier bicycle wouldn't fit everyone's transportation needs today. But they definitely can already meet the majority of Americans driving patterns today.