Quote:
Originally Posted by Seahawk
I agree. A friend of mine lives in Arlington, Va and works at the Pentagon. The Metro stop is a block away.
He has an EV that, in the DC metro area works perfectly well.
We met for a meeting north of Baltimore last week and he showed up in a Zipcar. The Zipcar place is a five miles away. He Ubered there then drove to the meeting. He can also park his EV at their lot for free. He uses them or Enterprise when he need long range driving.
He went from three cars (suburban home) to one car without a hitch.
|
The wife has an EV that has enough range to get her to school and back (barely), her studio and other errands being closer and easy. These days I mostly ride the moto to the office but now can take the metro train to main campus. I walk from the station to campus, Lyft from the station home (or walk - could do a folding bike).
We could drop down to one car (and even have it be EV) with the other options now available (rentals, zip, lyft). Only complication is gigging when I need to haul gear and if on the same night the wife needs the car. But probably a work around there as well.
Gas is overkill for most trips I see people taking - except for those that live in the outskirts and commute 2 hours into town. I don't see how that is a thing, but the "American dream" of home (and car) ownership drives some people to extreme solutions.