Sardines
Well-Known Member
There's something I don't understand about full electric cars. It seems the primary spec everyone wants is range. More is always better. Of course to get more range you need more of the heaviest and I'd guess most expensive part of the car, which is the batteries. Obviously with more weight it takes more energy to move, so the range you get per watt or whatever is going to go down as you increase the range.
I'd consider a full electric if I could get a small sporty model that got like 120 miles in range. Small battery, faster to charge, will do way more than I need for my commute, weighs less so is more efficient and faster acceleration. I don't need 350 miles of range for my plug in electric. I'd never use a full electric for a road trip anyway as even the best and biggest range models still have to charge on more than a daily basis and it takes time, more time the more range you have.
Until they have swappable batteries that you can change in minutes (I'm imagining an automated battery swap bay at the "gas" station) I don't consider full electric an option for a road trip. Battery tech is not advancing very quickly at all and we may already be facing the upper limit of what batteries can do just based on physics.
So why is there nothing in the dedicated commuter segment? 120 miles is way more than the vast majority of people drive per day. Heck I could do with 80 miles in range and still not use half of that a day.
I'd consider a full electric if I could get a small sporty model that got like 120 miles in range. Small battery, faster to charge, will do way more than I need for my commute, weighs less so is more efficient and faster acceleration. I don't need 350 miles of range for my plug in electric. I'd never use a full electric for a road trip anyway as even the best and biggest range models still have to charge on more than a daily basis and it takes time, more time the more range you have.
Until they have swappable batteries that you can change in minutes (I'm imagining an automated battery swap bay at the "gas" station) I don't consider full electric an option for a road trip. Battery tech is not advancing very quickly at all and we may already be facing the upper limit of what batteries can do just based on physics.
So why is there nothing in the dedicated commuter segment? 120 miles is way more than the vast majority of people drive per day. Heck I could do with 80 miles in range and still not use half of that a day.