Obviously there’s people where this doesn’t apply, but there’s outliers everywhere and they’re free to continue buying gas cars today.
I humbly beg to disagree; it's most definitely not an edge-case as the phrase is defined.
You're using "edge-case" to mean low-frequency event. How I see the phrase used everywhere I've ever seen it, is "edge case" referring to a low-probability event, i.e. an event that is predicted to so rarely occur that it can be dismissed from consideration.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-cas... says:
>> an extreme or not typical example of something, that should not be considered when forming an opinion about it:
An annual trip is an almost guaranteed event, so it's a very high probability event. I get that it is a low-frequency event, but "edge-case" is the incorrect term used to describe the event. Use "rarely" or similar instead.
System A delivering its event after system B may be an edge case.
Daylight saving time computations are not handling an edge case but a normal case that happens twice a year.
Not in this situation. If you take a family trip[1] once or twice a year, that's not an edge case, that's an annual case.
The other thing you are missing is that those routes that are longer than the EV range are busy every day!
If you go out, today (non-peak season), and see 2000 cars drive that long route today, that's 2000 car owners today that need that range, or 2000 car owners who would tell you "range anxiety" if you asked them to move to EV.
On peak times, popular long routes get over 2000 cars per hour. We're talking 100s of thousands, if not millions, of this need coming up per year, so its hardly an edge case.