Wishful thinking for the EV groupies.
Cold hard math, are you an urbanite? Do you live in a county with over 100,000 people? Subdivision ,condo or apartment? Of do you live on land outside an urban core?
What’s your daily commute? 5 or 7 days a week?
That’s your weekly mileage all in?
How many times a year do you drive more than 250 miles in a day? Away from home before coming home?
Most of my friends are urbanites. They drive 5 miles to work and back every day 5 days a week. They don’t shop at Wal-Mart they shop at wholefoods also a mile or two away from their condos or apartments. If they come to see me it’s 45 miles one way and the longest trip by far of their week.
I on the other hand when I commute into the midcites for a contract am 53 miles one way five days a week. That’s 106 miles round trip. Well over the 40 mile avg commute by two sigma over at that.
A BYD or Tesla M3 would easily cover even my 99.9% over avg commute. I could charge at home or work it wouldn’t matter where either way I would have enough range to get to either point and back every day only charging at one end. Work makes more sense since it’s part of the contract compensation package that saves $3600 in fuel I would have to buy retail.
For urbanites even exurbs like me a 300+ mile EV is the ideal commuter car for day to day use. Rent a car for the twice or so a year someone will need to go to “grandmas” 500+ away which for me is never if it’s 400+ miles I am flying writing off the airfare and renting a car at the destination. Same for all my urbanite cohorts. It’s such a nonissue with peer to peer car rentals you can even rent by the hours not day. Uber and lyft make local movements easy peasy especially if you want to get ripped while on vacay.