Re:BMW Ends Combustion Engine Production in Germany
by thebruce87m on Friday November 24, 2023 @08:45AM
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I can’t intentionally argue poorly for people in the US since I don’t know any of the details.
Edit: this is the closest you’d get in my country: https://abetterrouteplanner.com?plan_uuid=75ba2435-fd1b-4a49...
6 charges, under 2 hours of charging on a 16 hour journey. Not ideal but considering ( IF you can charge at home ) you’re saving petrol station visits the rest of the year and your running costs are 3p/mile vs 10-15p/mile for ICE it CAN be worth it. Not for everyone. I think I’ve tempered my language well enough.
You can pack up 6 people in an SUV and take an 800 mile trip one-way for <$200 of gas. The same flight costs $1600. You do that trip as little as once a year and you more than erase the lifetime savings of EV and the car that's better for your use-case costs significantly less.
And this is the "disney vacation" case where you don't need anything. If you're going camping you're not gonna take your gear and bike on a plane.
EVs are fantastic, I love commuting on my e-bike because it's the path to realizing the gains of an EV for short commutes with the benefits of an ICE for everything else. But I'm also young, healthy, fit and abled and there seems to be little market in the space of inexpensive EV transport for people who aren't that.