[dominicdoty]

This is taken out of context a bit. What's said is that range doesn't matter if you're not doing long hauls (which he defines as 150+ miles).

I tend to agree with him, as the majority of drivers are rarely driving over 150 miles in a day. In that case any car with 200+ miles of range will easily meet day to day needs with no fast charging. I've personally found this to be true as I come up on 6 months of EV ownership. I've only needed to fast charge 1x, and that was due to me accidentally not plugging my car in all the way one night.

He explained his viewpoint more thoroughly in a post linked just after your quoted line:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/09/01/How-Much-...

[bagacrap]

"with no fast charging" --- this assumes you can charge 150mi overnight, which I cannot in the townhome I'm now renting.

[dominicdoty]

A fair point, but even then 150 is probably on the high end. I commute 60 miles a day and made it through the first ~2 months using only a level 1 home charger (standard wall outlet). My total charge trended down through the week, and then made up for it on the weekend.

~10 hours of level 1 charging gives me about 50-60 miles. Slightly limiting for my commute, but all in all, not impossible to work around.

[clouddrover]

> What's said is that range doesn't matter if you're not doing long hauls (which he defines as 150+ miles).

Yes, he's only thinking about an individual driver. He's not thinking about the requirements across the entire fleet. There will always be plenty of people doing long hauls across the whole fleet.