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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Electric cars are so stupid. They won't work for 99.9999% of America. I'll just keep driving my 0.4mpg F350 super duty to work and back every day thank you very much. (My work, which is well within the (low end) 200 mile electric range of my house where I could easily install a charger, by the way, but for some goddamn reason I'm too afraid of change to even consider this option)

I had a friend literally tell me "Well, I don't know, it couldn't make it on a road trip from X city to Y city (about 400 miles)", and I was like well for 1, it could probably, and for 2, you could just buy one electric car for your commute which is 99% of your driving, and then keep 1 gas car for longer trips, have you never thought of that? He's a fucking 3 car house

[โ€“] Mojojojo1993 3 points 1 year ago

Yup. Cars are getting up to that distance. Long distance cars could easily achieve that distance and more. But also we don't need cars for long distances.

We should have fast trains with a hub and then go from there. Why drive slowly in a car when you can cruise at triple the speed in comfort.

We need fast rail links with transport hubs.

Could pick up a hire car at the destination and use that.