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Originally Posted by John V
Congrats. I agree that of the EV options that are currently available, this one is the most palatable.
It's a bummer that the non-Tesla charging infrastructure is so unreliable and fragmented. My buddy with the Rivian never drives it to our place because it turns a nominal 380-mile trip into a 450-mile trip with two stops.
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That's why I think the current focus on range is misguided. Unless you have some insane amount of range, you're still probbably going to have to stop and deal with public charging on a longer trip anyway. But then the other 90% of the time you're just paying for (and lugging around) way more battery than you need. Plus it seems like owners of longer range EVs (like your friend) end up taking something else on road trips anyway...so what's the point. And if it were possibly to buy something with say 1000 miles of range, I'd still rather save several hundred pounds not lugging around something that i'd very rarely use.