• acchariya@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 months ago

    The difficult part of this is that you’d have to have a car with 30% + 15% more range than your minimum, because your daily usage will be between 80% at full charge and 10% at lowest charge, and you will lose 15% efficiency in cold weather, snow, rain, headwinds.

    So for a minimum of 175 miles of range you really have to shop for a car with ~250 miles of range to be usable for you. I strongly believe we will see cars in the 30k price bracket with 250 miles of EPA range, but they are going to come with tech.

    • SteveEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      75mi x2 ways, is 150mi.
      150mi x1.15 (15%), is 172.5mi.

      This also isn’t daily driving. It’s a few times a year at most. So the 150mi trips would pre-aranged 100% charge days.
      Daily driving is less than 50mi. Closer to 30 really. So yah, I really only need the 175 miles of range.
      The rare road trip that’s longer, would be once every 2-3 years at most. I’d just rent something for those trips.

      And when I say less than $30K I mean less. Not the in $30K price bracket. The $20K+ bracket. Maybe $28 or 29K tops, if it had some killer feature I really liked.