They are not ready yet for extensive driving and longer trips.
“They are not ready yet for extensive driving and longer trips.”
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Shhhhhh... I think that’s the plan .
Depends on the trip. Leaving Alabama and going to different parts of Texas are example trips like you describe where there are few charging stations and it's best to take my ICE pickup. But driving from Alabama all the way up into the New England states are routes with many fast chargers to make stopping to charge easy breezy. Especially if my wife is with me and wants to stop every 200 miles or so anyway to walk around and stretch her legs. Thus, a 15 minute charging stop every 200 miles, on a trip with my wife with me in that direction is a good example for taking our EV.
But no trips in the EV to the northeast in the winter. LOL
Depending on your situation, if you're married and need 2 cars anyway, having both an EV and an ICE car might work as well for you as it does for us. Instead of it being a mutually exclusive decision like the Dims make car types (and everything else for that matter), why not have one of each and have the best of both worlds?
By the way, that's the basis for just about all political arguments in the U.S. The Dims frame just about everything as mutual exclusive decisions. They demand we go all in either one way or the other when sometimes the best solution for a family is a combination of options.
Your statement is why a Plug in Hybrid seems to make the most sense to me. A current example of that is the Toyota Rav4 Prime.
It has an EV battery that allows about 40 miles. Perfect for running to the grocery store and back. However, IF that errand trip turns out to be 50 miles the car switches over to the 4 cylinder engine. This engine also operates as a hybrid with the brakes recharging the battery system every time you come to a stop.
Or TOWING.
Fastest way to kill an EV's range: tow something.
Or TOWING.
Fastest way to kill an EV's range: tow something.