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Re:How Many EV Charging Stations Does the US Need to Replace... by redserk on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:43PM (#40495489)
You will never, ever be able to spend any amount of money on any vehicle that will perpetually guarantee a 100.000% success rate for all situations you will end up in.

Suddenly inherit a boat? Perhaps your towing capacity is inadequate.

A ravine appears due to an unexpected earthquake? Four tires probably won’t traverse it.

You’re out at a dinner party. Your friend’s car breaks down and you now need to carry 9 people? Anything but a small bus will be inadequate.

How to solve this? Look at your last X years of driving and solve for that. For everything else, vehicle rental exists for the exactly-once occasion.

I’m impressed by how many 9’s people try to solve for. It’s completely unreasonable. I solved for my 99.9% of days driving and am extremely happy.

Plus, how many of us would be currently unemployed if our respective industries demanded a 100.0% solution before adoption?

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Re:How Many EV Charging Stations Does the US Need to Replace... by sokoloff on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:19PM (#40495717)
> I solved for my 99.9% of days driving and am extremely happy.

That’s mostly what people are trying to do. In that 1000 days of driving, they are going to have ~three of every annual event. Thanksgiving travel to family three times. Christmas travel three times. Three years of summer vacations or ski trips, etc.

We have an EV and love it. We also have a hybrid for road trips.

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Re:How Many EV Charging Stations Does the US Need to Replace... by nebula8804 on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @01:31PM (#40503200)
Why not just have the hybrid? You already blew your carbon budget by having two cars so this is definitely not about saving the environment.
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Re:How Many EV Charging Stations Does the US Need to Replace... by sokoloff on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @01:43PM (#40503347)
We have two adults and two kids and frequently need to be in two different places at the same time, each in a car, between the combination of two working adults and various activities.

I never said it was about saving the environment. (It’s about not being outright ridiculous in either direction.)

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Re:How Many EV Charging Stations Does the US Need to Replace... by Terr_ on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:10PM (#40495670)
> You will never, ever be able to spend any amount of money on any vehicle that will perpetually guarantee a 100.000% success rate for all situations you will end up in.

Well, yeah, but they said consumers "overestimate" their needs, not "contract pathological monomania leading to psychiatric and financial disaster."

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