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Re:What Happened to EVs? by Kirby64 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:09AM (#38863661)
This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. Assuming you take one trip a day, then you’re literally only hitting that case 2/365 days.

Obviously there’s people where this doesn’t apply, but there’s outliers everywhere and they’re free to continue buying gas cars today.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by lelanthran on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:19AM (#38863731)
> This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case.

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.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by lukas099 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:48AM (#38865862)
Maybe edge case wasn't technically the right term, but I did indeed mean a low-frequency event (as it's used in the article). Sorry for the confusion.
Re:What Happened to EVs? by dagss on Thursday January 04, 2024 @02:17AM (#38864108)
If you know something will happen it is not an edge case, at least how the word is commonly used. Doesn't matter how often.

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.