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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3214/
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Just curious how often do you go more than 300 miles in a day, and if you do with any frequency how much would it really hinder you to stop for 45 minutes every 300 miles?
I don’t live in a city. My commute is around 100 miles. I drive 500 miles one way about 16 times a year. I drive 2400 miles twice a year.
Okay so you’re an outlier for electric cars and should stick with a gas car for the foreseeable future.
Yeah. Hence the reply. You didn’t believe me?
No, your original post just came off as “electric cars are completely useless. They don’t fulfill my very specific needs”. Maybe that wasn’t your intention, iunno, but why even say it in the first place?
My post was “I will get an electric vehicle when…” I didnt say they were useless. You read into that with your biases. My biases read this OP as ‘Dumb asses don’t realize they can charge the car” when the reality is way more complicated. Charging takes time which extends the travel. The batteries don’t last, because batteries. And they’re not cheap when they degrade to 10% of their range over a handful of years.
They degrade by about 10% on a 5 year time scale on average. So when your EV is 10 years old its at a state of health is about 80% of original charge. I mean you might get a lemon that degrades faster than that but then typically you're also putting in a warranty claim for a new battery. I'm not sure how long getting to 10% of original charge would even take because who would even keep a car that long?
You do that drive without stopping to pee or eat? Because my EV is pretty short range and slow charging for a modern EV and it still goes further than I can and it's ready to go again before I am.
It’s still more an infrastructure problem than a car problem. I wouldn’t have any hesitation doing that in my EV, but the real difference is I live on the east coast where there are plenty of chargers. Actually I suppose the important question is what direction we’re driving 2,400 miles, because I understand the Midwest is a desert