You do if you live where I live, assuming you actually want to get anywhere. Which brings us to point 2:

>It assumes that pure EVs are intended for long distance driving off of
>main routes. (That's a niche which will likely be handed off to
>things like electric-driven hybrids.)

... So in the future I'll be expected to have two cars, because one can't go anywhere except to the store and the other is Ethically Unacceptable for doing so? Uh. Who decides which trip is suitable for which vehicle?

It's just... like virtually everything else that's considered "modern" these days, the whole concept is optimized for city living to the point where it's worse than useless to those of us who don't. One gets tired of that drumbeat after a while. A very short while.

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