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Lots of people consider only their commute. They just don't complain about... Making it to work OK? Or don't announce it? The frequency of 200+ mile trips is vastly overestimated by anti-EV people in both terms of how often they do such trips and how many more people live in dense, urban areas. Lots of people already have shitty, dedicated commuter cars they wouldn't want to sit in for more than an hour as it is. A half-dead 2011 Leaf would still cover my 40-mile round trip. Back when I daily'd a Geo Tracker, I'd take my spouse's normal gas sedan if we had a trip. Or my weekend gas car. The average number of vehicles in US households that own cars is 2.3 cars. An EV can be slotted into most households without any real change.
No they don't.
The frequency is irrelevant. Again, if you want to go on a single trip, literally ever, in the entire time you ever own that vehicle, it needs to be able to make that trip, and it needs to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time.
If you only ever drive back and forth to work, then I feel really really sorry for you, but you are an extreme minority in that sense.
If you have a garage or place to easily charge the EV when at home or work, the amount of time saved over the life of the car never having to go to a gas station is dramatically more than the amount of time spent charging an EV on a road trip.
I don't understand what that has to do with anything?
lol. You are arguing that driving an EV on long road trips is untenable because of the charging stops. Yet driving an ICE costs 5-10 minutes every 1 or 2 weeks that an EV never has to do. Get a fucking clue bra.
lol. I did no such thing. You imagined that. I said it's untenable without sufficient vehicle range.
And even if I didn't, you can't just exchange time at the gas pump for time at a charging station. That's not the way time works...
Get a fucking clue bra
“if you want to go on a *single* trip, literally ever, in the entire time you ever own that vehicle, it needs to be able to make that trip, and it needs to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time.”
This you dumbshit?