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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
Fine when they get round to making electric cars with a long range and a 5 minute way of recharging the batteries but you're going to be driving your Challenger for a while before an everyday electric car is really a practical choice.
I have no idea how much of America's electricity is from oil-fired power stations so you may only be shifting from burning it in your car to burning it in a power station and then still end up paying for it either way.
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The existing electric cars that we have now or soon will have will work for about 90% of the people. Many of these cars have a range of around 200 miles per charge. Most people don't drive more than about 50 miles per day. Even if you commuted 50 miles each way to work (which very few people do) you will still have 100 miles left each day to run your errands and you can charge it up at night.
Sure, you can't take it on a long road trip or a vacation that you have to drive a long way on. But how often does the average person do that? Most people see 200 mile range and they instantly think of the one trip they took three years ago where they had to drive 1000 miles. For that they could rent a car, but that never occurs to them so they just dismiss the electric car as useless.