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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The assumptions being bandied about here are that everybody lives an urban existence. Not everybody does...
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No... statistically, most of the most wasteful driving is carried out by 85% of the country's drivers around urban areas, and
these are the people those assumptions are targeting. No one ever said every single vehicle in this country needs to be electric.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
I think the battery issue is irrelevant unless you drive more than 130Kms every day. Even then, if you do it's because your residential area choice is wrong and unless driving is one of your tasks.
A battery with a 100Km range will meet the requirements of 85% of the population's needs 95% of the time.
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Exactly. And your comments about renting are spot-on. I do that now, whenever I need a larger vehicle for hauling something. Renting will even allow people in
Texas to use more electrics, and rent when they need to. Most Americans could do the same... and the old excuse of "what if it's not available exactly when I need it?" is exactly that...
an excuse. Americans are very familiar with altering their schedules to deal with other people's timetables, and they can do it here, too. If
I can do it, it won't kill
you.
People who haul and handle heavy equipment regularly should obviously be using the appropriate vehicles for that... but using those same vehicles for light-duty transportation is inefficient and,
in most cases, unnecessary.
Even in Texas.
(Hey, you guys wanted all that land! If it costs you more to drive around on it, who's fault is that?
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