[FlyMoreRockets]

It's not just farmers and miners, but the extensive support system that grows up around these activities. People living in mining and farming towns have to regularly drive longer distances than battery technology will support.

For example, I am taking classes 5 days a week, but live 100 miles away in a farming community. Due to the nature of the course work, a significant portion is hands-on and cannot be done online. The campus has no charging stations and only relatively recently have electric cars had sufficient range.

[qball]

Also, remember that if a new electric car is capable of performing a commute just barely within its range, it won't be in 5-10 years once the battery is sufficiently worn down, so you can forget about buying used.

Oh, and once it's cold out, you might find out that you now no longer have the range to make it to where you need to go on a single charge. Maybe the car tells you in advance, or it doesn't and it runs out of juice, which a simple jerry-can isn't going to solve for obvious reasons.

Electric cars are inferior to gasoline-powered ones in the long term due to their very nature as a consumable product and require more expensive maintenance to continue being useful than a gasoline car will over its useful lifetime. That is, if the car company even bothers to make replacement batteries, since the battery is the bulk of the cost of the car in the first place.

[sandworm101]

I'm in a similar boat. My car has been recalled (airbag issue). The nearest dealer who can do the service is 175km away. Being in a "town" of over 10,000 people doesn't mean you have honda/ford/toyota dealership nearby. The nearest tesla dealer is over 600km away. I have never seen a tesla round these parts and doubt I will for many years.