BMW I3 looks like a VERY important milestone

[hunter]

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

Filling up every 160-186 miles might be annoying, but some gas-only cars have been worse.

I've got to wonder how far people commute. Many years ago I started resenting every second I wasted driving a car. When my wife and I met we were both Los Angeles commuters, but even our worst commutes were less than 30 miles each way... which could sometimes take hours.

For decades now our weekly work and shopping has rarely exceeded thirty miles a week. Most of the mileage on our cars is from visiting friends and family, picking up and dropping off people at the airport, vacation and the like. We could easily keep the old mini-van running another hundred thousand miles for occasional long distance people hauling work, and use a smaller electric daily.

Ideally we wouldn't need a car, but most of the U.S.A. isn't put together that way.