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Old 01-14-2019, 03:29 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by lemming View Post
The people missing out are the ones who are urban and park on the street.
And they will continue to buy the remaining ICE vehicles until society figures out a solution for them.

I will say this - the only time I have a problem with range is when I drive to the city and want to stay a few days. My car is parked outside right now losing 8% charge per night because it's 13 degrees outside.

In the mean time, Tesla will continue to dominate because Elon had the foresight to build a network of super-fast chargers across the whole damn country. I still find this to be incredible. More impressive than the fact that he's building some pretty decent cars.

I do find it kind of shitty that it's a proprietary network. But at the same time, I don't think we should block people from doing what he did. The remaining manufactures need to get off their asses and build something better... and hopefully open.
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