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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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To: Political Junkie Too

It really comes down to what is the likely worse case usage scenario for the car or how bad is the inconvenience going to be. There are hidden variables with these cars. In the midwest, the weather variable can be huge in the winter time. I wouldn’t buy an EV for a primary car for that reason alone. On a harsh winter day, that 200 mile EV becomes a ~100 mile EV.


66 posted on 08/09/2017 7:57:23 AM PDT by EVO X
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