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by pixl97 150 days ago
>Also if everyone in your neighbourhood turning on a space heater strains the grid you have bigger problems.

Welcome to Texas.

And with Texas a 200 mile+ driving day is just more common than people from smaller places experience.
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mlinhares 150 days ago
People can't possibly be driving 200 miles a day, that can't be real.
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bruce511 150 days ago
Sure it can :).

Probably not 7 days a week, but a couple days a week, sure.

And of course not everyone. Maybe 10%?

Not that it matters. What do I care about the needs of some Texans? (I mean that non perjorativly). I mean just because ranchers still need horses doesn't mean the rest of us have to use them.

The world will go EV, even much of the US will go EV, regardless of what some folks need.

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mlinhares 149 days ago
If you have to drive 200 miles a day to go to/come back from work its a policy failure and we should care about it.
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bluGill 149 days ago
Almost nobody is driving 200 miles to get to work. Almost everybody will move if their commute is more than half an hour - this is through out history and includes hunter gathers deciding to move the tribe, peasants walking to their field... There are a few people driving that far in the US, but either they are planning to move soon, or they don't expect the job to last long.

There are a lot of people driving more than 200 miles a day for work though. Many of them are in cars because their unique skills are why they need to be there (as opposed to delivery drivers who are bringing cargo).

There are also people who drive a long distance once a week. I know of a rural hospital that pays a lot of doctors to drive in on Thursday so locals don't have to go to the city. (they keep an ER, but the rest of the hospital is empty other than a few nurses the rest of the week)

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pixl97 149 days ago
So what is the limit of days you drive 200+ miles per year that make a full EV make sense?

In an average year I'll have 40+ days where I drive that much. Not for work, just for doing random things.

>a policy failure and we should care about it.

We should, but we won't because Oil/Gas/ICE cars spend an epic fuckload telling you that anything not related driving more is communism.

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