Plenty of electric cars out there now that can do 300 miles to a single charge.
Plenty of places you could drive to, plug the vehicle in, go about your day and let it charge while you’re busy doing something else. Fuel stations meant we had to be with our cars while they were refueling. That’s no longer a necessity.
In the event that you are in the extreme minority that really cannot work with an electric vehicle shrug stick with liquid fuel until that changes. But there’s no reason to stop the other 90% of the population getting on with a better technology for the vast majority of drives out there. It takes a small change in thinking, that’s all.
My partner (in the UK) has a 110 mile a day round trip commute. Work got her an electric van with a 150ish mile range. Annoyingly she also has to do 30-40 miles a day while at work. The math just doesn’t work out. However, if her work put a charger on the house (which has tax implications) a fast charger in the work yard, it would work out just fine.
The tech isn’t impossible, the tech just needs a little refinement to cover the small percentage of uses cases left that it doesn’t work. Yet people focus on the handful of times it’s a minor inconvenience, to write off a while developing and improving technology.
That’s a weird goal. I’ve never thought about how long I’m taking at a gas station. If I’m just getting gas it’s a very efficient, straight forward process that I’ve never felt the need to time or rush.
My goal is 3 minutes or less for every gas station stop.
Great. Charge at home, then you can spend as long or as little in a gas station as you want.
Unfortunately some of us drive further than a charge on a weekly basis. I travel for work
300 mile days happen weekly
Plenty of electric cars out there now that can do 300 miles to a single charge.
Plenty of places you could drive to, plug the vehicle in, go about your day and let it charge while you’re busy doing something else. Fuel stations meant we had to be with our cars while they were refueling. That’s no longer a necessity.
In the event that you are in the extreme minority that really cannot work with an electric vehicle shrug stick with liquid fuel until that changes. But there’s no reason to stop the other 90% of the population getting on with a better technology for the vast majority of drives out there. It takes a small change in thinking, that’s all.
My partner (in the UK) has a 110 mile a day round trip commute. Work got her an electric van with a 150ish mile range. Annoyingly she also has to do 30-40 miles a day while at work. The math just doesn’t work out. However, if her work put a charger on the house (which has tax implications) a fast charger in the work yard, it would work out just fine.
The tech isn’t impossible, the tech just needs a little refinement to cover the small percentage of uses cases left that it doesn’t work. Yet people focus on the handful of times it’s a minor inconvenience, to write off a while developing and improving technology.
That’s a weird goal. I’ve never thought about how long I’m taking at a gas station. If I’m just getting gas it’s a very efficient, straight forward process that I’ve never felt the need to time or rush.