FWIW, I still remember the day a week before a trade show when something went FUBAR on must-have-for-trade-show parts. I ended up driving over 80 miles before lunch. It does happen, and I don't want to be making excuses for my EV.
I'm thinking the public will be OK with 150 miles and happy with 200. Chris On Nov 18, 2014 1:37 PM, "Ben Goren via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2014, at 3:49 AM, brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > Range anxiety is often cited as one of the major reasons battery electric > > vehicles have yet to take off in the mass market. But does it actually > exist > > in practice? > > That friend of mine whom I mentioned a week or three ago is, I think, a > typical example of how range anxiety expresses itself. > > Best I can tell, he's the ideal example of somebody who'd be happiest with > one of today's freeway-capable production electric vehicles. More than > enough range for what he actually drives, plus all of the other advantages > the rest of the choir here knows so well. > > But he's worried that there might be some random emergency with the wife > or kids or parents that has him driving all over creation on no notice when > he's already at work and thus used up a quarter of his range. > > I don't think he's ever actually _had_ such an emergency that a typical > electric vehicle would be unable to handle...but the fear remains. > > I think 200 might be the magic number for my friend and people like him. > Most people are going to think of that as a 100=mile radius, and think of > that as more than enough "Murphy factor" to not have to worry. Only those > with insane commutes are going to think of that as not being enough. > > Reality doesn't necessarily play much of a role in these sorts of > decisions. I could suggest that, for the once-a-decade time (if that) my > friend actually needs to make that sort of an emergency excursion he could > easily hire a cab, and it wouldn't matter. "It's better to have it and not > need it than need it and not have it" is the mentality at work. > > b& > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 801 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141118/dc23c8be/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141118/38c953c3/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
