On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:53 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A new study brings an old topic back to the forefront: how much range is > enough, and is it better to use battery advancements to decrease price > without improving range or make electric vehicles go further on a charge? > Why not do both? Why is that such a hard concept to process, especially when Tesla is already doing it? Keep the ~80 mile range for "most" drivers, but include an optional long-range pack option of over 100 miles. Everybody wins, and EVs can start growing out of their self-imposed short hop characterization. Face it - most places that aren't California (or a very few other forward-thinking locales) don't have the infrastructure to support using an EV without some level of range anxiety. I would love to commute in an OEM EV, but even a shorter-than-average 25 mile commute becomes an issue in winter or after several years of age on the pack. A 100+ mile range would erase all anxiety. We have the technology. Can we please use it? Why we disagree > No study is perfect, and this one is no exception. Whether or not a sub-100 > mile range is actually feasible for these (or any) drivers, what matters is > that the driver thinks it is feasible. Perception trumps reality when it > comes to range anxiety, at least for the time being. > > Though there is certainly a place for electric vehicles like the Nissan > LEAF > and its current 84-mile range, psychological barriers and the need for > longer trips means that electric vehicles must diversify their offerings to > include longer-range options. I could not have said it better. Studies like this necessarily use current conditions and extrapolate. But this is an emerging technology. If you act based on conclusions taken from where you've been and where you are, you tend to go where you're headed - not where you want to be. Tesla understands this trap and avoids it. (If the genius of their business model was reduced to one thing, that would be it.) The Tesla Model III won't be limited to 80 miles. I'm betting there will be more than one range option. What happens to the other players when it comes out? Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140828/4d0895e3/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
