[Walkingfeather]

My original post pointed out that many people do not drive more than 40 miles per day. A range of million miles would not do anything for them.

This is just wrong. This is based on commute distance. However most people don’t just go to work and home. On weekends they drive more than 40 miles. After work they may drive more than 40 miles. It is not practical to have a car with limited mileage. You would have to change cars whenever you wanted to go 41 miles. This is crazy talk...

[GonzoGOP]

This is just wrong. This is based on commute distance. However most people don’t just go to work and home. On weekends they drive more than 40 miles. After work they may drive more than 40 miles. It is not practical to have a car with limited mileage. You would have to change cars whenever you wanted to go 41 miles. This is crazy talk...

The other problem nobody wants to deal with is the drop in range when accessories, specifically heat, lights and AC are in use. I'm right on the cusp of the 40 mile range for home-work round trips. But i live near Chicago and as they say if you don't like Chicago weather, wait five minutes it will change. I have had my 18 mile commute go to 4 hours due to snow or when flooding closed many of the streets. In the winter you have to run the heat constantly or the windows Ice up or fog over. In the summer it can get into the high 90s and AC becomes a must unless you want to get to where you are going pit stained and stinky. And the day can start out nice and temperate, and then hit you with a blizzard or heat wave while you are at work. I need a car I can count on to get me home. An electric car with half a battery charge (you used the first half getting to work) isn't going to cut it.

The way i look at it my current car (Mazda M6) Averages just under 25 miles to the gallon with my average driving. So in theory I could get to work and back with only two gallons of gas. But would you buy a car with a two gallon gas tank knowing that if you hit snow, rain, extreme heat, or just really bad traffic you would end up out of gas on the side of the road. I just don't need that kind of stress.

[Jeff Gordon]

No, it is not based on commute distance. It is based upon miles driven per day which includes commute distance. My EV1 had a range 75 miles pr charge. I had plenty of spare miles to handle most deviations from the norm.