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Originally Posted by fr240
How many times in the last 5 years have you had no power overnight?
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A couple times a year or so.
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If you live in the snowbelt, how many times a year is it acceptable to not drive to work during a snowstorm?
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I've never not driven to work because of a snow storm. I'm sure people are excused for such things frequently, just as they are for dozens of other personal reasons. But a snowstorm is a different animal from the occasional personal mishap because it means that the expectations are lowered on everyone in the affected area, and furthermore many events get canceled anyway. If I can't get my kids to school on time because I have to charge my car up for a few minutes before I am comfortable making the trip into school and then work, that affects just me and my kids. And if there is an important event or test being taken that morning, that's even more stress. This is real life, it's a legitimate concern, and its one example of the many reasons why EVs are not replacing ICE vehicles en masse today.
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How many times in the last 5 years has your car broken down or needed to go to the shop? I bet it's more times than you haven't had power overnight...
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My cars have never failed to provide transportation in the morning when I pulled them into the garage in working condition the night before.
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Did you find an alternative to get to work or wherever you were going? Probably so. You can carpool, telecommute, take an uber, take a cab, take transit, take the day off, drive to a supercharger and have a delayed arrival, ask your neighbor for a ride, etc.
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But then we are missing the point. If a small percentage of gasoline powered models on the market could become unusable overnight without warning, then people would stop buying them. That's truth. And it wouldn't be a gray area, or something that happened gradually. Those vehicles would be rejected outright and fail to be viable products. Period. The reason is, people have expectations, and those vehicles would fail to meet expectations.
So then, simply swaping an electric motor into said vehicles that still leaves the same risk would not be considered a legitimate solution. In fact, it wouldn't even be a recommended solution. No one would make that suggestion because no one would reasonably think that is a solution to the problem at hand.
It's not about work-arounds. People here are smart enough to know that work-arounds can be found. It's about viable products that meet the expectations of today's consumer. That's it. Really - that's all it's about. Consumer adoption requires a product that meets consumer needs.