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To: Political Junkie Too
a four hour drive becomes a five hour drive.

If you make infrequent road trips, a hour out of your day may not be so bad for some people. The Bolt isn't a practical road car because of the slower quick charging. It is about half as fast as a Tesla supercharging. Trip times will vary depending on weather conditions and charging availability. From what I've read, Tesla supercharging stalls don't all operate at the full charging rate when completely full. A full 8 stall station will only provide a full charge rate to 4 cars, and a reduced rate for the other 4. Once a car leaves, the car next to it gets the full charge rate.

55 posted on 08/09/2017 6:51:55 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: EVO X
It has the effect of making the world a much bigger place.

If all one does is local commuting and stays within a small radius of home, then these cars might be okay.

But if one likes to do day-trips on the weekends, maybe travel the beach or the lake or the hills, then everything changes.

This is probably the behavioral lifestyle change that the Left wants, to reduce the horizon of Americans, to make them more homebound and less adventurous by taking away their fast cars with large gas tanks that let them travel large distances for hours.

This has always been one of the great differentiators between the United States and Europe. I once had a friend from The Netherlands (pre-EU) who told me, "If you traveled for more than an hour, you stayed overnight." Some of that was due to their high gas prices and the costs of owning a car. I think the social behavioral influence was the fact that Europe was small sovereign nations where you mostly traveled only within your nation's border. The Europeans that I met back then marveled at the vast expanse of the United States, and how the people freely traveled large distances where everything looked the same (McDonalds, etc.)

Moving to all-electric cars would make the United States a much more provincial nation if long-distance travel becomes an inconvenient hassle.

-PJ

56 posted on 08/09/2017 7:06:05 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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