How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and profitability

Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by Shivetya on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:02AM (#13559811)

but that is not how people travel, ever.

besides time to charge the real big drawback of battery EVs is the weight of the packs

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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by soundwave106 on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:57AM (#13560153)

I would say this actually fits the majority of traffic patterns: https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/su...

EG: The vast majority of travel is for errands and work commuting. Probably a lot of that social travel in the linked survey is short distance as well.

Average miles a day is 30, which can easily be covered by an overnight charge.

Agree that the time to charge EVs is definitely a drawback for long distance travel (whether for social reasons or for transport etc.).

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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by exhilaration on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:57AM (#13560151)

But this is how they used to travel when cars were first introduced. The Ford Model T could only get 170-200 miles [1] on a full tank of gas and gas stations were certainly as rare in the early 1900's as electric charge stations are today. Yet Ford still sold a ton of Model T's, and look at where we are today.

[1] Source: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/146015.html?1276...

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