>>You don't drive EVs until they are almost out of charge and then stop
>>to recharge them. (You recharge them when they would be parked
>>anyway.)
>
>You do if you live where I live, assuming you actually want to get
>anywhere. Which brings us to point 2: If your regular daily usage, (or trip distance if there are chargers at each end), is longer than the range on batteries then a pure EV isn't the right choice.
>>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?
No, if your typical usage is going to require the longer range you have a single car that isn't a pure EV. Such as the mentioned electric-driven hybrid: For short trips, these are slightly less efficient, (due to the extra weight), or somewhat shorted ranged, (if the weight of the generator is made up for by having fewer batteries), than a pure EV. For longer trips the generator activates and supplies the electricity to continue driving.
Now, if the long trip is the atypical one then you would use two different vehicles but you still wouldn't own two. However, this is a bit of analysis people should have been doing for years, (cost of a vehicle that does everything you need v/s the cost of one that does most of it and renting for the rest<1>).
>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.
If you are trying to solve the "carbon emissions from transportation" problem then the place to start looking is at the use cases which are more common and easier to deal with, (i.e. the low-hanging fruit). One of the big use cases that fits into that is the daily commute in urban/suburban/exurban areas with running errands in those same areas another one.
<1> Most people do do a crude version of this in that they don't buy something that is enough to move a house's worth of stuff and instead rent a truck, (possibly with driver).
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