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Why then is the range of a basic car (like a Camry) 700+ km even with extensive refuelling network. If 99.9% of drivers never need this range they have smaller
by osigurdson 1y ago
Why then is the range of a basic car (like a Camry) 700+ km even with extensive refuelling network. If 99.9% of drivers never need this range they have smaller tanks.
- rsynnott 1y agoBecause increasing the range of a petrol car is practically free (and in many cases the tank sizes were kind of notionally set 50 years ago when engines were far less efficient; as engines got more efficient no reason to make them _smaller_). Like, virtually no-one is driving 700km non-stop (that's going to be probably eight hours unless you have excellent roads the whole way; it's arguably _unsafe_, and certainly most people would want to at least eat in that time), but, really, there's no downside. For electric cars, there _is_ a serious downside to having huge range; it makes them expensive (and heavy). So manufacturers will tend to stop at "sensible for most use cases". I'm sure there are some people for whom electric car range is still a problem, but it's a niche market, especially in _Europe_ (again, you can drive across many countries in Europe in 400km).
- osigurdson 1y agoYeah ya, EV range is just fine as is. No need to improve that at all.
- rsynnott 1y agoI mean, sure, more would be better, but it's _fine_ for the vast majority of users at this point.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoPeople dont want to go to the gas station. Advantage of EV is you can charge at home