| Hard disagree (as a person that owns EV). While it's true that most people don't drive that far daily, it's also true that most people want their cars to be multipurpose. Most EVs can only be time-efficiently charged to 80% while DC fast charging because the charge curve drops a lot. And nobody want the pucker factor of getting much below 10% while road tripping. So, you're really only working with 70% of the max range. At 'normal' freeway speeds of 70mph+, most EV max ranges are less than 300 miles, and 70% of that is 210 usable miles. You can make it work, but it feels like you're always managing and thinking about charge level vs a car which usually has 400+ miles of range on the freeway. IMO the base range for EVs needs to be 500 miles, to get 350 miles of usable range, plus 350kW+ charging so charge stops are 10 minutes ish. And the Chinese EV companies have 400kW+ charging cars already, with announcements for 600kW charging! So battery energy density is critical to getting the range that people want without making the cars even heavier. |