Sorry, electrics do not have the range, recharging time nor capability of ICE vehicles.
Hybrids are the stop-gap. Toyota knows this.
The first person who freezes to death in an electric vehicle because its range was cut in half and no charging was available will make all-electrics a non-starter for most Americans.
All-electric may work in urban areas with density, but not in the vast majority of this nation.
No. This is America. The heirs of the first person to freeze to death in an electric car because its range was cut in half and no charging was available will sue the state they live in, every car manufacturer, and every supplier of electricity in the region because their father/mother/son/daughter froze to death and it must be everyone else's fault.
“All-electric may work in urban areas with density, but not in the vast majority of this nation.”
The vast majority of driving is done in urban areas.
Roughly 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
>> The first person who freezes to death in an electric vehicle because its range was cut in half and no charging was available will make all-electrics a non-starter for most Americans. <<
“The first person who runs out of gas will make...”
Sorry, but I can jam about 9 gallons of gas into my Honda Accord, despite its supposedly 14.5-gallon tank. And it gets about 30 MPG, not the 40 advertised. So that’s a 270-mile range. I’ve had bigger, old cars get similar range with bigger tanks and lower MPG. So there’s nothing freakishly low about Tesla’s 265/320/345-mile ranges. Leaf on the other hand... ick.
As for the availability of charging stations, they’ll soon become as ubiquitous as unleaded gas.
“The first person who freezes to death in an electric vehicle because its range was cut in half and no charging was available will make all-electrics a non-starter for most Americans”
That kind of news will be more suppressed than a Clinton rape.