Re:What Happened to EVs?
by FalconSensei on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:04PM
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> If someone were to ask you how far your office is from the airport, I bet you’d respond with how long it takes to get there, not how many miles it is away.
To be fair, in this case, time makes way more sense. I need to know when to leave to get there in time for my flight, and I don't care about the actual distance.
And this is only because modern tech has made distance a moot point - we can travel _any_ distance these days, up to the moon (it's all a matter of just cost).
But EV's have upended that - distance matters with EV.
the time can vary by a factor of 2-3 depending on traffic and travel mode, but the distance does not...
I live about 9 miles from the airport (Edinburgh), but that is going through the city centre. If I take my city bypass, it's 20 miles. Depending on time of day, the bypass is often quicker.
Re:What Happened to EVs?
by standardUser on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:26AM
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Google Maps solved this problem a while ago.
Re:What Happened to EVs?
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:58PM
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Parking in denser cities is limited, slot of us only have one space and so one car.
This is more problematic in apartment buildings without parking space. I imagine that, as BEV adoption increases, parking lots will offer more charging spots. Ideally, one charges the car where it’s parked, and retrofitting apartment buildings for that might be complicated.
We have one EV and one ICE, and it works great.
We have one hybrid electric vehicle. No recharge, gets about 50-60 mpg and we absolutely love taking ro
Fat-thumbed my previous reply. Anyway, we love taking road trips in our HEV. It's a good middle ground until the kinks of EVs get worked out and I'm confident that will happen soon.
Range anxiety is real; it took quite a bit of work and trust for my wife to not fill the car anytime the tank registered half empty.
Re:What Happened to EVs?
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:18AM
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6 minutes, 1.5 miles. Let's see if I'm right...
7 minutes, 3.4 miles. Hmm.. guess you're right.
Another alternative is to just rent a car for that long road trip which I’ve done in the past.
That being said, I think far more people worry about daily mileage than you think. People think in terms of time spent driving, not distance. They tend to assume every hour is 60 miles and reality is for most it’s nowhere near that. I’ve had my wife lose her mind that the car is warning about range with 25 miles remaining and she’s 6 miles from home. Humans tend to be REALLY bad about estimating the distance of something but really good about estimating time.
If someone were to ask you how far your office is from the airport, I bet you’d respond with how long it takes to get there, not how many miles it is away.