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tinrobot

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5. It's not so much range anxiety, it's charge anxiety.

Reply to MindMover (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 01:01 AM

Dec 2012

I have an electric car. It's great and yes, more range would help, but the multi-hour charge time is the biggest barrier.

When you can charge the car in less than 30 minutes, then you have a workable equation. Tesla is very much on the right track with fast charging, hope they continue to innovate.

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