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Originally Posted by pwd72s
In 3 years, if I live that long, I'll be 80. Really, I was just pointing out the primary shortcoming of electric cars today, not 3 or more years hence. I doubt we'll see 500 miles range electric in your time frame. Such a race today would give an old dog plenty of time to stop, get out, and water the sagebrush before continuing...
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Its funny, people like to point out the shortcoming that is just something that really isn't a shortcoming to most people. I'm willing to bet you Paul in your scenario of a race, there is no way at 77, you ain't stopping to take a leak and stretch out a bit. Now I'm just playin with ya, and at 53 I'm just as easily speaking for myself. But I'm not driving that far without stopping. Not how I travel.. We have 2 EVs and a few ICE vehicles. We drive the EVs 99.9% of the time. With daily commutes of less then 100 miles, our 250+ mile range is more then enough to commute, run errands and get home with plenty of battery. Not sure where you live in Oregon, but according to Google from Lebanon to Portland is 80 miles. You could round trip that on a charge no problem. Thats real life use.
Most people don't drive 120mph on their commute to work, most don't do repeated runs to 60mph and most people on this board don't have real life experience owning a EV. But its interesting that most people with real life experience enjoy owning a EV and more times then not buy another one.
One thing we do have in common, I'm not interested in owning a new Turbo either.
