Re:Roadster 3.0
by baddox on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:52PM
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It doesn't matter all that much what your average daily drive is, if you have several road trips a year where an EV's range is prohibitive. That is, of course, until the EV saves you enough money over a full-time gas car that you can afford to buy or rent a spare gas car for your road trips. Or until charger or battery hot swap stations are everywhere.
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This is a good point. Early model range was still too low (I have days where I end up driving a couple of hundred miles on little advance notice). But given a realistic (not some next-to-impossible "ideal") 300-400 mile range, in most cases when I need more than that I know about it far enough in advance to arrange a rental. That also assumes that total cost of ownership is lower by enough that it's practical to use rentals as a "second" vehicle and still come out ahead.