I agree! I also found that on days when I had a meeting in the evening that a 2 hour charge after I got home from work while I had my dinner was often enough to go to my meeting or run errands.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 9, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Mr. Sharkey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > 90% of my driving is local, 90% of my driving is EV. > > That's not 100%; but the perfect is the enemy of the good. > > I'm not willing to pay the Tesla premium > > for a perfect 100% EV solution. > > If more people realized this, more of them would purchase EV's. > > I'm frequently asked by interested people about my car's range. Answering > with a mileage figure is always a disappointment for them. They expect a > sound byte answer that will satisfy all their driving needs. Anything less is > a complete denial of the usefulness of the vehicle. > > It takes longer to explain that the car fulfills a large percentage of my > commuting and hauling needs. If it's snowing, or I need to tow a trailer, or > climb to a mountain-top transmitter site, I take my 4x4 pickup ICE. If I need > to take off for a weekend at a friend's beach house, and need more range and > speed, I take my diesel Rabbit. Is the EV a perfect solution to every need? > No, no tool ever is. I insure three vehicles, which is the downside to having > a wide range of transportation needs. That's my penalty for having an active > life. Renting and ICE for those times the EV won't serve would make a lot of > sense, if there was such a service available locally. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
