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BlueStreak

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9. You still have range anxiety any time you have a battery-only vehicle.

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 10:58 AM

Jul 2013

Have you ever received a phone call while you were out, asking you to add another segment to your trip?

Have you every been stuck on the highway on a blistering hot day for 45 minutes while they clean up an accident ahead?

There are all sorts of unexpected things that can suck that battery capacity. Personally I will never buy a vehicle where I have to spend so much of my time worrying about whether I will make it to the next charge station. In a fantasy world where none of those unexpected things happen, batteries always deliver their claimed range, there is always an available charging station a few blocks away, and the charge time is only 5 minutes, the Tesla is perfect. In the real world we live in today, it is good for the 1% status seekers.

We are a family of 2 and have 3 vehicles (I have a motorcycle). But we don't trade vehicles because each of us has a lifestyle that has us keeping some of our equipment in our car all the time.

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BMW I3 looks like a VERY important milestone [View all] BlueStreak Jul 2013 OP

I like it madokie Jul 2013 #1

Off to the greatest with this (and a few tech details not in the OP article) kristopher Jul 2013 #2

List $45,200 with the gas engine BlueStreak Jul 2013 #10

80-100 is not viable. Warren Stupidity Jul 2013 #3

Depends who the user/market is Nihil Jul 2013 #4

Exactly. If a person needs a pick-up truck to pull a horse trailer 400 miles a day BlueStreak Jul 2013 #8

You couldn't possibly have read the article kristopher Jul 2013 #5

I read it and I am referring to the E-vehicle not the hybrid. Warren Stupidity Jul 2013 #20

How many millions of families have 2 or more cars? Finishline42 Jul 2013 #6

There isn't any range anxiety with this car. kristopher Jul 2013 #7

You still have range anxiety any time you have a battery-only vehicle. BlueStreak Jul 2013 #9

Do you understand how this car (a series hybrid) works? kristopher Jul 2013 #11

Yes. I was referring to the battery-only EVs (Tesla, Leaf et al) BlueStreak Jul 2013 #13

I didn't pick up on that, sorry. kristopher Jul 2013 #14

Do you have a battery-only vehicle? wtmusic Jul 2013 #16

No. I have range anxiety just thinking about it :) BlueStreak Jul 2013 #18

The model with the little gas engine is 100% electric except for longer trips. hunter Jul 2013 #19

When I lived in California ..... oldhippie Jul 2013 #21

Alas, 45 grand doesn't make it practical for most of us... TreasonousBastard Jul 2013 #12

That's an "eye of the beholder" thing. BlueStreak Jul 2013 #15

A commenter on one board called it "The Baby Gorilla" wtmusic Jul 2013 #17