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While 'range anxiety' used to be a factor in purchasing an electric vehicle years ago, consumers have less to worry about when it comes to how far their EV can go, experts say.

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[โ€“] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (11 children)

โ€œRange has improved,โ€ said Mark Marmer, the owner and founder of energy consultant Signature Electric. โ€œNow most cars and trucks have at least about a 300- to 350-kilometre range, which is a reasonably comfortable thing.โ€

When on a longer trip, a charge to give an extra 150 kilometres or so will take about 15 to 20 minutes, but that also depends on the speed of the charger, according to Marmer.

Unfortunately, that's a pretty hard sell when your work day requires more mileage than that, and you want to get home asap.

[โ€“] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

What percentage of people realistically drive more than 300km per day? We're talking 2.5-3h on the road per day, not taking traffic into account. Extrapolating 300km per day, over 49 weeks a year, 5 days a week, that's just shy of 74000km. Who drives that, outside people whose job it is to drive stuff lol?

[โ€“] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It doesn't have to be "per day" - it needs to be often enough that they'll be deterred from getting an EV.

Look, I'm pro-EV, but I think it's important to acknowledge that in a country as big as this one, there are going to be people with justified "range anxiety."

[โ€“] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Sure. It is not what the comment I was responding to was referring to.

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