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I’d argue most families have two cars though. So you get one EV and keep the ICE until the charging infrastructure is where it needs to be. Another alternative
by tw04 3y ago
I’d argue most families have two cars though. So you get one EV and keep the ICE until the charging infrastructure is where it needs to be.
Another alternative is to just rent a car for that long road trip which I’ve done in the past.
That being said, I think far more people worry about daily mileage than you think. People think in terms of time spent driving, not distance. They tend to assume every hour is 60 miles and reality is for most it’s nowhere near that. I’ve had my wife lose her mind that the car is warning about range with 25 miles remaining and she’s 6 miles from home. Humans tend to be REALLY bad about estimating the distance of something but really good about estimating time.
If someone were to ask you how far your office is from the airport, I bet you’d respond with how long it takes to get there, not how many miles it is away.
- FalconSensei 3y ago> If someone were to ask you how far your office is from the airport, I bet you’d respond with how long it takes to get there, not how many miles it is away. To be fair, in this case, time makes way more sense. I need to know when to leave to get there in time for my flight, and I don't care about the actual distance.
- chii 3y agoAnd this is only because modern tech has made distance a moot point - we can travel _any_ distance these days, up to the moon (it's all a matter of just cost). But EV's have upended that - distance matters with EV.
- cozzyd 3y agothe time can vary by a factor of 2-3 depending on traffic and travel mode, but the distance does not...
- standardUser 3y agoGoogle Maps solved this problem a while ago.
- maccard 3y agoI live about 9 miles from the airport (Edinburgh), but that is going through the city centre. If I take my city bypass, it's 20 miles. Depending on time of day, the bypass is often quicker.
- bombcar 3y agoRange anxiety is real; it took quite a bit of work and trust for my wife to not fill the car anytime the tank registered half empty.
- mcbishop 3y agoWe have one EV and one ICE, and it works great.
- 0xEF 3y agoWe have one hybrid electric vehicle. No recharge, gets about 50-60 mpg and we absolutely love taking ro
- 0xEF 3y agoFat-thumbed my previous reply. Anyway, we love taking road trips in our HEV. It's a good middle ground until the kinks of EVs get worked out and I'm confident that will happen soon.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoParking in denser cities is limited, slot of us only have one space and so one car.
- rbanffy 3y agoThis is more problematic in apartment buildings without parking space. I imagine that, as BEV adoption increases, parking lots will offer more charging spots. Ideally, one charges the car where it’s parked, and retrofitting apartment buildings for that might be complicated.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y ago6 minutes, 1.5 miles. Let's see if I'm right... 7 minutes, 3.4 miles. Hmm.. guess you're right.