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Nearly all car trips are way under 300 miles. I believe the P95 trip distance (in the USA) is 30 miles each way. Most people can use an affordable pure-electr
by thrownaway2424 12y ago
Nearly all car trips are way under 300 miles. I believe the P95 trip distance (in the USA) is 30 miles each way. Most people can use an affordable pure-electric car such as the Leaf, e-Golf, or Fiat 500e for most trips. From a system optimization perspective, it's OK if some people (like you) always need the range of an internal combustion engine and everyone else switches to electric.
- bobbles 12y agoyeah 90% of my trips might be short, but i'm not going to go and rent a separate car when I do need a long trip
- sandstrom 12y agoThat's a valid point. But perhaps you'd be willing to paus for ~20 minutes every 3 hours or so? (especially if you make long trips infrequently)
- bobbles 12y agoYeah, adequate infrastructure at all the 'break' points would essentially solve the problem as people should be taking those 3 hour breaks anyway
- thrownaway2424 12y agoSure, and for some people the solution to that is car sharing, or car pooling, or just owning two cars.