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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by natch on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:31PM (#27963292)
Two EVs is way easier to manage than an ICE car and an EV.

If you have no charging at home but a walkable charger nearby, with two EVs, you can drive the second one to your vehicle that is already at a charge station, and trade off, driving the first one home and leaving the second one to charge. Then trade off again later. With an ICE car as the second car, you would either do more walking (nothing wrong with that, sure, but it takes time) or you need a second driver.

You’re possibly falling into the trap of thinking EVs are hard to use for long distance road trips. Depends on which EV though. Not true for at least one brand.

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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by bluGill on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:14PM (#27964813)
If you don't have a second driver why do you have two cars in the first place?
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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by natch on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:54PM (#27965974)
That’s not what I meant.

I see a lot of ICE drivers giving an EV driver a ride to the charger. For example, husband wife couples.

If they had two EVs in their (multi person, ok?) household, then the ICE driving person would not have to spend their time being a chauffeur, because the EV driver could just drive the second EV to the charger and leave it there charging.

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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by bluGill on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:09AM (#27972650)
And then when the second EV is charged?

It feels like you have a half thought out point. Sure it can work, but I think anyone in that situation would discover it is really inconvenient in practice.

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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by natch on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:34PM (#28009708)
No it’s not only fully thought through, it’s a tried and tested lifehack that we did for a year or so, and we loved it.

It means if you have a 10 minute walk to the charger, you only have to do that walk once when you drop off for the first charge, and once when you pick up for the last charge. That can save a lot of time.

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