[masklinn]

> when in practice that range is unneeded on a daily basis

Which is great if you have space for and can afford two cars.

But if you don’t and / or can’t, you need your one car to handle both your daily driving needs and the odd long range trip.

> It’s like demanding a all-day battery from a laptop, only to leave it plugged in all day long anyway.

Which i’m reasonably sure is what’s happening to many MBPs, but if you do actually meed the odd all-day battery… then you do need it.