Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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This is the way.

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I'm a massive EV fan and love my car more than I thought it was possible, I never dreamed commuting could be enjoyable, but...

if you're regularly driving five hours up into remote mountains in the winter with no chargers en route, then absolutely stick with your diesel.

It's not for you.

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1000km is 620 miles. That's heading for a 10 hour journey without stopping. No way am I prepared to do that. I don't have your stamina or concentration span.

For me, personally, without other considerations, my ideal EV would cover me to probably stop every three hours for a break. That's around 270 miles if I'm on a motorway 100% of the route, so I'd be happiest with an EV with a stated range of 400 miles to have 50% more than I need, and would want to charge from 50 left up to 320 left in ideally 20 minutes to half an hour. (Once the family has all been to the loo and I've looked at the route ahead and caught up with my messages, 20 minutes has flown by.) 400 miles stated range is roughly 100kwh capacity, charging 270 miles in 20 mins is 67.5 kwh in 1/3 hr, so 202.5kw charger.

Motorway service stations are installing 350kw chargers although a bunch of them still have 100kw or 150kw max, and some just 50kw.

I reckon my absolutely ideal EV will be on the market in a few years with plenty of fast enough chargers and I'll buy it second hand a few years after that, by which time I'll have had this EV, my most fun to drive vehicle ever, for a decade and my wife will be happy to swap it out.

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Sadly most people are too retarded to know how to use a hybrid properly. It's why they are likely to be phased out as well because too many people just treat them like an ICE.

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So do combustion engines.

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I honestly have no clue what you are trying to say.

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I don't think you're understanding the analogy, or at least there's some fallacy in the way you're applying it.

I would be perfectly fine with one that holds 35 cubes since I only use about 13% of that per day. That doesn't mean I will accept arguments that my ice tray should hold LESS than 35 cubes, which is what this article is trying to do with the range of electric vehicles.

Just because I'm not using the maximum amount every day, does not mean I want the maximum lowered. Again, if I had an ice maker that could only hold 5 ice cubes, while it would technically fulfil my needs most days, it would still be a shitty ice maker.

We aren't talking about "what if I had a large party?", just like we aren't talking about "what if I need to drive 1200 miles in a single day?". We're talking about "what if I have a single guest over?" or, in terms of the car, "what if I have a few extra errands to run?"

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What? No. They're not suggesting lowering it to 5 at all. No one thinks the maximum should be set at the average (apart from a credit card company that I quit, but that's another story).

The article is saying that most people who insist on a 35 cube tray tend to use about 5 cubes daily and some of them just don't need the 35 and might be absolutely fine with a 20 cube or even a 15 cube tray.

Let's put it back in miles. The study found:

350-375 mile EVs: 11.3% of range used daily

Which is about 50 miles.

What "few extra errands" do you have that cause you to drive hundreds of miles? That's not an errand, it's a road trip.

Personally I drive round trips of 30 miles a day and 80 on Saturdays. Several times a year, we go further and then I stop every couple of hours to charge for 25 minutes or something. I'd rather stop every three hours, but it's worth it for the convenience and economy of home charging and the joy of driving I get.

If you go on more road trips than we do, you probably want a bigger range, but my humble family car 150 mile EV is more fun to drive than any other vehicle I've driven, including an overpowered automatic BMW that was lovely but not nearly as much fun.

I'm not ever going back to boring sluggish driving, spongy acceleration and annoying commuting and all those endless endless visits to petrol stations.

The cheap petrol station is a ten minute drive from my house. Filling takes a few minutes. My diesel had more range and I could eke it out to a fortnight, but the petrol one was every week. People expect me to be upset about stopping for 25 minutes and messing with my phone, going to the loo, eating a bit of food every couple of hours, ten times a year, but I used to go to the petrol station every week! I don't miss it AT ALL.

I spend hours and hours in my EV every week. It's genuinely fun to drive. The odd visit to the motorway service station is no biggie. I love my EV. I tried it for the curiosity, and love it for the driving experience

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Your car had a stated range of 700 miles and you only stopped for fuel?! Take a proper break, dude, 10 hours is too long, you're going to have an accident. Professional drivers have legal drive time limits for a reason.

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I hope you explode in a lithium bomb idiot