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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Electric vehicles are not for long range travel.
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Sure, but drivers like me, drive between downtown and the outskirts, maybe about 15 kilometres. In the summer, this gives me about 2 and a half round trips on a single charge. But since I can charge at home and downtown, this works out perfectly.
Also, cars like the Volt have a gas backup engine, so when we do need to take a long trip, we can easily do it.
A fun thing to do is to plan a trip using EV charging stations along the way. It's hard to do today, but considering how fast EV charging stations are popping up (80 more are being added here in Montreal and surrounding area this year), planning EV-only trips will be getting easier and easier.
Tesla's go for about 450 kilometres on a single charge, and charge up to about 80% in 20 minutes. I bet that pretty soon, EV's will be able to to travel coast to coast.