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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by thesuitonym on Friday March 04, 2022 @09:39AM (#30555414)
If only there were a way to take a trip without driving. It would be so nice if there were some kind of large vehicle that multiple people could get in, that had a dedicate right-of-way for long-haul trips, so individuals didn't have to worry about fuel. These hypothetical vehicles could go to multiple high-traffic destinations, so a person could get close to where they wanted to be, and then drive a personal vehicle the rest of the distance, but sleep for most of the trip, or just relax.

Unfortunately, no such method of travel ever has or ever will be invented, so I guess we'll just have to rely on internal combustion engines for the rest of eternity.

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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by ghaff on Friday March 04, 2022 @09:52AM (#30555598)
Because it is totally reasonable to expect there to be a bus or train from some arbitrary location (even a city) to a random mountain trailhead or ski area.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by hnaccount_rng on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:50AM (#30556397)
You just described Switzerland xD
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by ghaff on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:17AM (#30556737)
Even Switzerland doesn't have complete public transportation coverage but it probably comes closer than just about anyplace else.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by nradov on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:38AM (#30557013)
If you want to get from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe area ski resorts it's almost impossible to do that via mass transit. Best case scenario would be an all-day ordeal with at least 5 transfers, and no easy way to carry bulky, heavy ski equipment. No one is going to put up with that when they can just drive their personal vehicle in half the time with greater comfort.

There used to be a private ski bus charter service on weekends but that shut down due to the pandemic.

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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by thesuitonym on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:14PM (#30559059)
It's amazing that people will say something like this. We don't have this infrastructure now, so we can't even think about building it.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by MontyCarloHall on Friday March 04, 2022 @09:51AM (#30555589)
While I agree in principle, pragmatically (in the US at least) it would be orders of magnitude easier to build out our EV charging network and increase the all-season range of EVs than to build out a massive rail network on par with both our interstate road network and local highway networks.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by zdragnar on Friday March 04, 2022 @09:44AM (#30555484)
Such vehicles certainly don't exist for 90% of the long haul trips I take (busses and trains). Planes could get me there, but they also would actually take longer than just driving because where I need to go isn't serviced by national lines, only regional planes.
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