(12-05-2019, 11:09 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I have an 8 mile round trip to work and would love to drive an EV. However, the cost of an additional car isn’t justifiable because I won’t give up my ICE vehicle in the event I need to drive extended distances.
Another concern of mine is range and AC operation in the summer time. Does the AC in an EV still operate when the car is at a stop, and how does it affect range?

I reached a similar conclusion with a former colleague of mine when EV's where first starting to take off. He's retired now but at the time he'd commute to work 30 minutes each way and in the weekend he'd go hiking and drive to a different trailhead each time, a round trip of 300 kms max. For 95% of his trips an EV would have done fine, except every summer he'd hitch a caravan to the back of his car and drive to the South of France with his wife. EV's couldn't do that (still can't really), so instead he drove a Volvo station diesel.

EV's are great cars and are perfectly acceptable for a large part of the trips made, but that 5% of the trips they can't make is still going to make people buy ICE driven cars. Unless of course, you're lucky enough to afford two cars, one EV and one ICE.

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