Re:The Case Against More Ethanol (2016)
by bluGill on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:32PM
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The fixed costs of owning two cars means that it rarely works out. Rental cars can work, but again the math rarely works out because it is so expensive to rent a large car.
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I also worry that in the hypothetical world where most people just own a small electric for local daily use, and rent a large diesel (or whatever) for the family holiday, demand for those larger, longer-range vehicles will be extremely seasonal.
It may not be viable to maintain a large fleet of family-vacation-type vehicles just to satisfy the demand for summer holidays in August and ski trips in February.
Re:The Case Against More Ethanol (2016)
by wastedhours on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:58AM
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I did mention rental, 100% agree owning two would be absurd. For rentals, it might end up being more expensive now, but that's not really my point, the daily practicality (both in fuel savings lugging around a huge car for 50 extra weeks a year) and in ease of having a smaller, easier to manoeuvre, potentially cheaper to maintain electric car are not only on a cost basis.
This is merely an interstitial time until you can run from Bucharest to Leipzig with fast charge stations in every town and village along the route.