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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by AnthonyMouse on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:00PM (#20717105)
The dominant share of vehicle miles are commuting to work. If you work 9-5 and there is a charging port at work, you plug into it when you get there and you're charging during daylight hours. Meanwhile the average commute is 16 miles each way against cars that now have a ~300 mile range, which is plenty of slack for the odd evening use while still not needing to charge outside of work on anything but rare occasions.
Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by WorldMaker on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:52PM (#20717666)
In the 300 mile range you start to get near the point where the average (mean and median, maybe not mode) commuter can charge once a week on an average work week at a fast charger at the local grocery store for merely an hour or two and still not worry about range. Work charging and home charging are nice to have slow and steady options that make EVs easier than gas, but it's about to the point where if you treat it like "gas" with a once a week fill-up that is increasingly an option if you relax your worries about "range" to the point that gas users are currently relaxed about in keeping their tanks full.

(Range anxiety for ICE will eventually make a huge comeback. Electricity is everywhere, imagine driving a car where you couldn't just plug in anywhere the electric grid is and had to go to "stations" of a scarce mostly single-purpose resource for power. Haha.)

Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by godshatter on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:21PM (#20718728)
How long does an electric car take to charge, though? That's the convenience factor of ICE vehicles that will be hard to beat, probably. I can fill up my ICE vehicle in a minute or two.
Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by WorldMaker on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:03PM (#20719144)
I included that information. A top level CCS or SuperCharger can often fill an electric car to 80% battery in about 30 minutes and to 100% generally somewhere between an hour and two (models will vary, as do the variety of chargers). People easily spend that much time on a grocery trip or a snack/meal (at least) once a week per my hypothetical scenario above. It's "good enough" already for a lot of people today, and again I was primarily arguing today's median/mean case.
Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by Forge36 on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:39PM (#20717511)
I wish I had a charging station at work. My commute is short enough I don't need it fortunately