Most people don’t need Range in their daily life.
With Agenda 21 implemented and urban travel “perfected” autonomous vehicles, even more people aren’t going to need their own car to leave town.
With a larger fraction of the population not interested in achieving as much personal freedom as possible, the automotive market may quickly transform.
I like to road travel. That’s out if I have to be stuck with a useless electric automobile.
> Most people don’t need Range in their daily life.
Not daily, but often enough to avoid needing to use a second mode of transportation. For instance, I go hiking with a 3 hour drive about every other weekend. There isn’t an electric car around that will accommodate that use case.
That might be true for people who live in cities, but out here in flyover country where the deplorables toil to put food on your table, range does matter. Your ranch might be 20 miles from the nearest town of 500 people without high speed charging and hauling a load of cattle feed and groceries home in below zero weather in your electric pickup will likely leave you stranded. Small businesses like contractors depend on pickups to haul equipment and supplies to job sites and cannot afford to wait a hour for their electric truck to charge in the middle of their workday. During harvest season in the Midwest large combines go across the fields harvesting the grain crop and fill large semi trucks with grain to haul it to the local elevator. These vehicles as well as the tractors that plant the grain all run on diesel fuel. Where do you get a recharge of your batteries in the middle of a field?