| I disagree with you here. It’s not just range anxiety. You need to have extra capacity for cold weather and degradation over time. If I have a car with a 300 mile range, and it’s 0 degrees outside, now I’ve lost a solid chunk of range, I’m down to the low 200’s Then, if the car is 15 years old, I’ve lost another 10-20% of battery capacity. But I also need to stay below 80% charge or I’ll double my charge time, so really I only want to operate between 5-80% on a road trip. Now I have to charge every two hours of driving or maybe even less. Compound that more if I need to tow something, put a kayak on the roof, put a bike on the back, etc. So if I’m starting from an EV that has a more reasonably sized battery pack delivering 150 miles of range, well, maybe I can tolerate that but not in the winter 10-15 years from now. Of course this discussion isn’t extremely relevant to school buses. |