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The Tesla Nightmare Shows Why All-Electric Cars Are (Basically) Dead On Arrival
- MikeCapone 14y agoNote: I'm the OP and I'm posting this here for discussion, not because I agree with what is said in the article (I basically think it's a bunch of strawmen).
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoDon't feed the trolls.
- marssaxman 14y agoOh, that's just silly. Five years from now there will be so many people driving electric cars that anyone looking back on this headline will just laugh. Of course we are early in the EV era, so road trips are more difficult than they would be with a gas car, but this is a temporary condition. The electrical grid already goes everywhere, so it's just a matter of building the charging stations, and charging stations are cheap. I personally know three people who have bought electric cars - a Tesla roadster, a Tesla Model S, and a Mitsubishi Mi-EV - and all three are happy with them and use them for regular city driving. The guy with the MiEV has taken his car on a couple of long road trips - once from Seattle down to California and back, and another time on a long loop east around the Cascades. The guy with the Model S says he actually thinks about his car's range less then he does with his gas-powered car, because he never has to take it to a station: he just plugs it in when he gets home every night, and it's always ready to go in the morning. What's more, even if it is more difficult to take an electric car on a long road trip, the vast majority of driving happens within 25 miles of home. People wealthy enough to buy a Tesla generally have two cars anyway, so even if there's no Supercharger network between you and the next city, who cares? That's what your gas car is for. It's a hybrid fleet instead of a hybrid car.