My friend drove to an all day conference about 40 miles away. No problem. Plug in all day. Until his wife ended up back home in the emergency room and it took him a few hours on L2 to get enough charge to get home. He is still living that down. I am a full beliver that 80 mile range is enough. But I am aware of the above example. But still, had he carpooled, or so many other things could have also happened, that I just chalk it up to life happens.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Ben Goren via EV Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:37 PM To: brucedp5; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Hand-wringing EV angst is not a real problem 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/dc23c8 be/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) _______________________________________________ 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)
