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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
My main point is that we seem to be finding the worst of both worlds:
1. heavy+material intensive cars that are massive overkill for 95% of the time...
2. but they still aren't really effective for the other 5%
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Fair point, but I really think what you are pointing out is more of a mid-transition problem. Optimizing EVs will happen once they are widely adopted; 'society' simply isn't there yet.
Also, as SP pointed out the market or 'society' isn't there yet. Until they get over range anxiety, I would submit that the EV manufacturers are committed to the inefficiencies.
Random but, somewhat related aside:
A buddy of mine works for Zoox. There is going to be a crossover in the near future where autonomous cars really start to question people's relationship with car ownership vs "car as a service" and what a car actually 'is' or even looks like. Once that happens, the range anxiety becomes moot.