Originally Posted by
dubcac
How the hell is distance/charge a useless number? It's not like you can pull into a station and recharge it while you're out driving. That would be way more important in buying a fully electric car than how efficient it is at charging. If car A had a 200mi/chg and car B had a 100mi/chg, I guarantee car A would sell 20 times more.
Again, it's useless.
Right now it seems like a great number, but in probably less than 10 years most electric cars will more than likely be able to hit a much higher average number. This makes the electric range as useful as the gasoline range right now.
We also need to remember fully electric cars can come in tons of forms, hydrogen cars, gasoline/electric, fully electric with batteries and possibly super caps.
If this number is going to be as heavily used as MPG for just as long there needs to be some serious thought put into how efficient they are and how to reflect that.
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oh BTW, Happy Thanksgiving
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