On Thu, 27 May 2021 16:08:37 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/27/2021 3:26 PM, wrote:

If they want to get to a city 300 miles away, they fly.

300mi is a pretty short distance for flying. Much of the country
doesn't have commercial airports that close together. Hub and spoke
makes flying short distances even harder.


When I lived in CT I traveled to Philadelphia often. It was faster to
drive than fly. At both ends the airport was an hour from my
destination, you had to be at the airport 1 to 2 hours before flight
time. Then I'd have to rent a car at destination. Not like the old days.

Now I'm 1200 miles away and still choose to drive it a few times a year.


Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who
will be driving after we've laid down our car keys.

"We" aren't laying down our car keys.


I'm not either but millions of people never drive more than 5 or 10
miles in a day. Does not take much to fit their needs.

I am one of those guys who's range was well within an EV for my "going
to the store car", even using lead batteries but I had the problem
that with that meager fuel cost it was still hard to justify the
capital outlay so it is a double edged sword.
You need to hit that sweet spot where you drive enough to make the
difference between electric and gas economically viable against your
initial cost.
I ran the numbers on slapping a $4500 EV kit for a Civic into my
Prelude. I could buy a bunch of gas for $4500 and I knew that wasn't
going to be the only cost, even with me doing all the labor.
You don't get the $7500 tax credit for that either.
The idea was quickly abandoned.