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  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    what’s the point? the majority of people for the vast majority of trips don’t need even 100 miles

    • @_MoveSwiftlyOP
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      21 year ago

      Then you’re not doing a long trip.

      My trips are at minimum 88 miles, one way. Longer trips are usually 8 hour drives, 4 minimum. So about 250 miles.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      And not everybody has a house with a garage where they can charge overnight. I don’t want to have to look for a free charging point and wait around 30 minutes every few days. Also sometimes you actually need to drive far and a short range would be inconvenient or straight up impossible to manage if the charging infrastructure is not good. For example, I live in Bulgaria, in an apartment building without a garage. Even tho it is a small country, it’s quite easy to be very far away from a charging point because the infrastructure is poor. If I want to go visit my grandma, that’s a 300 mile drive, most of it through underdeveloped rural areas, which obviously won’t have a charger available. Until EVs match ICE cars in terms of range they are just not a viable option for me and quite a lot of other people.

      Edit: just noticed this post is a month old. I have no idea why lemmy decided to show it in my hot feed.