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wtmusic

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16. Do you have a battery-only vehicle?

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 11:46 AM

Jul 2013

I do, and although everyone's experience is different, I don't have any range anxiety whatsoever.

I did when I first got my Nissan Leaf. The "miles remaining" display is pretty useless - it depends completely on what kind of driving you're doing. But knowing that in advance becomes second nature, as does plugging in your car when you get home. That gives you an effective range of not 80 miles/day or 100/miles/day, but close to 200 miles every day - more than the vast majority of people need for local, non-vacation driving.

Panicked, hypothetical scenarios involving sudden snowstorms, traffic jams, mothers giving birth, etc only seem to appear in the imaginations of people who don't have an electric car. The rest of us deal with it, and I've never gotten stuck once.

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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