From my perspective, your example of a yearly month-long vacation to a personal vacation home is unthinkably extravagent, and anyone in that situation is rich enough not to worry about the inefficiencies I am talking about (from a personal finance POV I mean. From an environmental standpoint it is an abomination)
What part of it is "unthinkably extravagant"? Having a vacation home isn't very uncommon, 4 weeks of vacation in a year isn't uncommon. You don't need to be stupidly rich to be in the situation I described, you just need to 1) have had enough spare money or luck ant some point to end up with a vacation home (inherited or otherwise), 2) not have severe enough financial trouble in the present to sell it, and 3) value it enough to prioritize it over the benefits of selling it.
Having a vacation home is incredibly uncommon and privileged compared to a huge population that can't even afford a primary home that they own.
Same with having four weeks of vacation every year, at least in the US.
I'm in Norway, so that probably skews my perception a bit. I'd say it's almost more common than not to have some vacation home in the family, and 4 weeks of paid holiday is the legally mandated minimum.
Re:What Happened to EVs?
by thomasahle on Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:48AM
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> they could just rent out a rental car for a month for a billion dollars instead of having a car
Renting a car for a month is more like $1000.
For some people, it would look like this:
> We need a car which can take us to our vacation home
That's the reality a bunch of people are looking at.Granted, for a bunch of other people, taking one or two stops to recharge at well-maintained and nice charging stations along the way would suffice. But as I'm sure you're aware, that's not the universal experience with recharging EVs along the way yet.