You will need the few miles of extra range when:
1) The car gets a number of years old, and the pack ages a bit.
2) Winter, bad weather, etc.
3) Construction/accident detour.
4) Unnoticed low pressure in tire.
etc, etc, etc....
It is nice to have a little extra cushion in the total range.
At 04:53 PM 3/9/2015, you wrote:
My answer: I'm waiting for a 40 mile BEV. The Prius 12mi is too short
and both it and the VOLT haul along an entirely not needed ICE (adding
$10k to the price) (I have 2 other salvage Prius for all the distance I
need). And my daily commute is 30 mi total. 40 miles for me.
Unwilling to pay the extra $6k for the final 40 miles of the current crop
of 80 mile BEV's that I'd never use.
Bob
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Ok, we've seen both sides of the "wasteful" range question. Let me pose
this: how close to saturation are we for the market of people who can
afford and are willing to have an additional car just so they can buy a
short range (50+ miles) for local driving.
That is, how many people are left who will buy a short range EV with the
justification they also have an ICE car for longer distances?
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