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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ya, see stuff like this makes me question exactly what will happen when everyone is in EV's. Summer road trips with everyone stopping to charge every 200km? Bike racks and trailers killing range? It convinces me even more that we should concentrate on lower range city cars where most people do the majority of their km. Hybrids and range extenders may make a lot of sense. That, and delivery vehicles and anything operating shorter range in the city. I think the Lightning is a great product, but it won't be replacing a tow vehicle for anything over a couple hours.
Will long range trucking ever work, unless they have range for a full day up to the driver's hour limits, when they can charge overnight?
When people see range numbers of 500km, and they have to drive 1000km, they'll think, ya, "I can stop once or twice at most for that trip." They won't think that after the 100% charge drains, they are in for misery.
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I'm assuming the vast majority of people don't have trips over 500kms very often. Although likely more common for people in Western Canada (outside of lower BC) given there is less density there than in most places in the world.
Renting vehicles will probably become more common for those types of trips. And even then - you can see a model where a rental car company opens up every 500 kms on the more common routes and you just swap cars every 500 kms. The car charges up for 2 hours and goes to the next person who needs one.