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The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles

• josephcsible 4y ago
  > The basic, $45,000 version of Ferrell’s Blazer EV can drive 247 miles on a charge. To go farther, you’ll need to pony up $47,595 to get 290 miles of range or $51,995 to reach 320 miles. The gaudy $100,000 launch edition of GMC’s electric Sierra is rated for 400 miles, but the entry-level models of that truck are widely expected to have a diminished range to go with the price cut when they arrive. For the revived Hummer, too, driving range is an upsell. Eighty grand buys 250 miles, while spending six figures raises the range to 350. Those vehicles are far from representative of EVs in general. Consider that the Chevy Bolt is $26,500 with 259 miles of range, and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 is $47,450 with 303 miles of range. > not all those miles are usable: [...] range anxiety limits the number of useful miles at the battery’s bottom end, where drivers can’t risk running out of juice. When you drive a gas car, do you drive another 30 miles after the gas light comes on before you fill up?