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Originally Posted by DanEC
My ERA may only get about 180 miles on a tank or so, but I can fix that in about 10 minutes at any of hundreds of thousands of gas stations across the country and be on my way immediately. And I can keep that up as long as I can stay awake or someone else drives for awhile. But I would rather take my Mustang or wife's Highlander on a lengthy trip anyway and then I only have to refuel about every 350 - 400 miles.
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Point well made Dan, but with what I think is an inevitable increase in EV production, there will be a growth in recharging infrastructure the same way gas stations blossomed all over the country in the golden days of the automobile. Every major manufacturer is dabbling with all-electric models and with charging stations at regular intervals, frequent (though never as quick as topping up a gas tank) partial recharges along the way may well be the answer to the issue of long cross country trips. Every system has its pros and cons, but the huge benefits and awesome performance potential of electric cars make the efforts to solve or mitigate their inherent drawbacks well worth the effort.
I just don't get the angry opposition to the technology. Our Cobras are very limited in their practical usefulness for long trips and winter or rainy weather driving, yet they aren't being drummed out of town as useless and unusable. It seems like it's just a polarised knee jerk reaction to something that's actually quite good simply because it's different from what we happen to like or are accustomed to. Similar to the curious brand loyalty to Ford products I see here - my daddy and his daddy before him drove Fords, so anything Chevy builds will always be a piece of crap, regardless of how good it actually is.
That tendency to be blindly polarised is being exploited today by people who see how easy and profitable it is to make masses of citizens do what they want by playing upon their blind loyalties to what's familiar and comforting; and their irrational fear of anything different or unfamiliar.
Sermon over - but as was said earlier - I guess that's just one of my pet peeves.
