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Not all places have public transportation... Rural areas specifically. What options would we have there? I'd hate to drive to town and have to wait a few hours

• bryanlarsen 2y ago
  How far away is town? A modern EV has 300 miles of range and can charge the bottom half of its battery in 20 minutes.
  • johnea 2y ago
    And given a rural located home, one wouldn't charge in town at all. Leaving the car plugged in overnight, while you sleep, leaves it with full range in the morning. I think this is one of the biggest advantages of EVs, that is least touted: you never have to go to a gas station ever again. Also a rural location offers the easiest installation of solar/batteries, which means that not only do you never go to the gas station again, but your transportation fuel is now provided onsite. Providing a huge increase in independence/autonomy.
• atonse 2y ago
  Can you expand on this? Because the overwhelming number of use cases show that "driving to town" would be < 100 miles. And if you plugged in your car while you ran whatever errands you needed to (or could get 100 miles of range at a L3 charger in < 10 mins, which is even possible today), what exactly is a use case where this wouldn't suffice? For the record, I'm actually in favor of keeping cars and I consider proposals about people ditching their cars to be absolutely impractical, and will land on deaf ears. That said, like any other normal human being, I would like to reduce pollution _everywhere_. So I'd like to understand if people will still make those arguments once the "cars are bad for the environment" impact is greatly lessened from EVs.