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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by SoftTalker on Friday November 17, 2023 @04:04PM (#38310294)
Can you not accept that other people have different needs than you? Some people do 350+ mile one way trips regularly, not "once in a blue moon" and EVs are just less convenent for them. I have trips like that at least monthly, sometimes weekly. I can do that on a single tank of fuel and not have to worry about finding a charger along the way or when I arrive or if my hotel will even have working chargers (I'm sure some hotels offer this but I personally have never seen it and I stay at moderately decent hotel like Hampton Inn).
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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by BobaFloutist on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:46PM (#38311647)
Yeah but if charging stations become as ubiquitous as gas stations, this becomes a lot less of an issue.

And quite frankly my 10-gallon tank has like a 400 mile range, and newer electric cars have like a 300 mile range, so the gap is getting pretty narrow.

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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by calvinmorrison on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:35PM (#38312272)
95% of people commenting on this thread live within a short drive of the Amtrak North East corridor and absolutely should convert to an EV as fast as possible. For people who dont live in the NY megolopolis... the factors are different.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by floxy on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:02PM (#38312598)
Anyone have stats on the overall audience of HN? I'd have guessed it to be very west coast heavy.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by Symbiote on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:33AM (#38316973)
It's a bit dated, but much more international than you realise, especially if you tend to read at the same time of day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521

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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by averageRoyalty on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:09PM (#38314096)
I'm commenting and I don't even know what that is. I'm guessing it's thousands of kilometers away from me.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by Zanni on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:30PM (#38315197)
You make a good point that different people have different needs, and everyone tends to argue from their own perspective. And, like you, I would not rely on hotel chargers.

However ... if you drive a Tesla, there are very few places in the United States where you would have to "worry about finding a charger along the way." Enter your destination in the nav, and it will pick a convenient Supercharger for you.

You're probably not planning on converting to a BEV anytime soon, but check out Tesla's trip planner on your monthly 350+ mile drive. I think you'll be surprised.

https://www.tesla.com/trips

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