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Re:What Happened to EVs? by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:17PM (#38874069)
I take 9+ hour trips (1 way, so 9+ back) multiple times per year.

try again.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by jsight on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:23PM (#38875669)
That isn't even remotely relevant to my comment, in context. :)
Re:What Happened to EVs? by persolb on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:05AM (#38877829)
I think you are missing the point though.

I haven’t had to ‘go get gas’ for 4 years. People probably argued “getting water from the well isn’t that hard compared to maintaining all this infrastructure”… but none of us want to go back to that. Completely losing a class of chore is freeing, even if it wasn’t that horrible anyway.

For long distance trips, I mostly agree with you. My habit was always to stop every hour to get a drink and stretch legs so it doesn’t bother me as much. For your 11 hr trip, it would probably add 2 hours.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:22AM (#38879333)
I'm sorry, did you compare walking miles to a well to gassing up a vehicle?

yeah, no. A minor convenience vs running water is not comparable, stop being dishonest.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by PeterisP on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:30PM (#38883580)
I'd assume that the parent post compared walking outside your door to a well in your own yard, as used to be the common practice in the countryside, which indeed takes much less time than gassing up a vehicle but obviously not something you'd want to do if you can have indoor plumbing instead.