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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.
If one needs to travel or carry payload, car rental centers are everywhere and much cheaper than buying a big vehicle. Does one really need to buy an SUV to go skying twice a year? RENT!
There are promising batteries to come and those of today can be rented.
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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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I live about 40km away (depending a bit on what route I take) away from town. (which is a long distance for us, Dutch, people!) So, I commute between 60-80km each day. A 100km radius would just be enough. But I also like to hop to Germany once in a while to do some shopping (there's this huge shopping mall about 50km across the border), and then that 100km wouldn't be enough. And renting a car isn't an option then (we often decide in the afternoon we won't be doing our weekly groceries here, but in Germany).
So, either there are "battery" stations just like there are gas-stations, or batteries are a dead-end.
And about buying a car for skiing, I'd rather go by train
