Road trips are important. If it’s my only car it needs to be able to do them even if I’m only doing a few of them every year. If you have a family with kids an

Road trips are important. If it’s my only car it needs to be able to do them even if I’m only doing a few of them every year. If you have a family with kids and your other family members are a few hundred miles away the range matters. Nobody’s going to buy four plane tickets and a rental car just to take a 400 mile trip. That sort of trip in an EV is going to be two or three charging stops especially in winter temperatures adding up to close to an extra hour to the travel time. In Europe a trip of that length can be done on a train or a dirt cheap flight and you might not need a car at your destination. Or it won’t happen at all because your family is likely to be physically closer in a smaller country where language and culture borders are closer in.