I’m asking this without bias. Just genuine curiosity. Cause I don’t understand (hence eli5 lol). Why are they being pushed right now when it’s known that almost all EVs have ranges that are quite low? Compared to the amount of miles one may get with a full tank of gas that is.
Surely they would focus more on increasing the amount of range per charge to match what you can get in terms of gas in a newer gas powered car (closer to 500). Instead of setting laws in place to phase gas out before electric is even fully developed.
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Because they only have low range relative to our current expectations for gas vehicles, not to what they actually need to do the job.
People that drive 200+ miles per day generally *don’t* use electric vehicles. But average commutes are far smaller than that…the vast (vast vast vast) majority of trips are covered by < 100 miles per day.
In a gasoline car this would be super annoying because nobody wants to go to the gas station every day. But the “gas station” for an electric car is…the garage where you were already parking it anyway. The incremental burden to “refuel” your electric car every day is nearly zero, so the fact that it needs to refuel every other day or two is basically irrelevant.
And, in return, you get performance, quietness, cheapness, and mechanical reliability (Tesla notwithstanding).
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