[DesertRhino]

I don’t want a car that has a 250 mile range and then I have to plug in sit there like an idiot. And guess what’s gonna happen to that range when you want to do something exotic, like use the heater for the whole trip?

And how fun would that electric car be when California spends half the year in the dark, and you have idiots like Abbott and Perry giving Texas the same treatment?
Imagine the Texas dark freeze and you also can’t use your car.

[M1903A1]

Some minimalist vlogger on YouTube made a similar statement about why she got rid of her electric car (which she otherwise loved)...the California wildfires came perilously close to her, and it dawned that she might need to evacuate and find herself stuck someplace and unable to recharge.

[Alberta's Child]

Electric vehicles make sense when they are operated in a fairly defined range and are stored overnight in a driveway or garage. That's why UPS and Amazon are using electric and CNG-fueled trucks, but the long-haul trucking industry will be the last to ever get on board with this.

What makes the typical American car or small SUV ideal for electric power is that our power grid has a lot of excess capacity during overnight hours in most parts of the country. In fact, using this power overnight to recharge car batteries will probably make electricity somewhat less expensive overall because it will flatten out the peaks and valleys of daily power generation across most of the country.

[Bob434]

Just thought of something too. These range estimates are only for brand new cars with brand new batteries. Batteries lose staying power for their charges as they age. Wonder how much it will affect range when they start becoming older and ho,d their charges e for less time?

[Verginius Rufus]

How long does it take to recharge an electric car? I have seen the charging stations at the local Wal-Mart--how much do people have to pay for recharging?

No intention of buying an electric car or even a hybrid. I have a 2012 gas car and hope that it is good for at least another 8 or 9 years.

[KamperKen]

"I don’t want a car that has a 250 mile range and then I have to plug in sit there like an idiot"

I've made the drive from Las Vegas to Orange County in Southern California over 150 times in the last twelve years. In that time I have seen a Tesla only once on that drive, and it was at the side of the road in Barstow, out of power with the hapless driver standing next to it looking like an idiot. It was a hot day and the range (between using A/C and the decline in battery output) was around 150 miles.

[webheart]

Texas dark freeze was a couple of days. Can’t use your car for a couple of days, deal with it. The other 362 days present no problem.