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Are people using their #EV range for 200-mile trips between cities or is it more like commuting 30-40 miles per day and driving 20-50 more some days for random errands? How many of the trips are less than 3-5 miles and just add up to being too inconvenient to plug in at work or between longer trips?
@enobacon I understand they're being used more or less like cars; 60% of car trips are 5 miles or less
<2% are greater than 50 miles
@pleaseclap I'm wondering if daily use drives the desire for 300-500 mile range, or if that's just a few trips per year. When do we get the rooftop biodiesel turbine range extenders? Or liquid hydrogen fuel cells? Advantages of smaller battery, entry cost, and less weight rolling around in town while being able to rent/lease a distance extender.
@enobacon That's basically exactly it: just like people overestimate how often they really need a pickup truck, they over-estimate how often they drive long distance
Really you don't even need a special range extender: if most people had an EV as a daily driver and rented a gas or hybrid car a couple times a year when they actually need it, it would be a massive emissions reduction
@pleaseclap I think there's a logistics thing of loading kids and stuff into a car that is definitely an advantage if it's the way you always go in a car, if you can just stop at the gas station and get a module, battery or whatever it is. Maybe putting the long distance miles on another vehicle is better but there could also be trains...
@enobacon EVs with swappable batteries served by battery swap stations is almost as cool as trains I agree