Single car family (by choice, not economic necessity). I like alternative commuting (bike in the summer, walk+bus in the winter).
EV would be great most of the time, but we still have elders to visit who live beyond-EV-range away and in one case, in the sticks with no high-capacity EV recharging infrastructure nearby anyway.
If it was an EV as a second car, no problem, it would probably get 90% of all the use.
As for what EV? Just like the particular kind of geek that I am is closed-system resistant and therefore avoids Apple (and is disappointed by where Android, Windows, and (if a certain L.P. has his way) even Linux is going), I just don't like the "great car if you 100% buy into the ecosystem/religion" thing of Tesla. I'd prefer something that is more of a normal car that happens to be electric, rather than a cult object.
But with the single car requirement, what I actually want is a plug-in hybrid with enough battery to go about 100km on a charge. That too would make 90% of our mileage electric without sacrificing the dino juice powered instant go anywhere capability. But nobody makes those, or do they? The 2023 Prius Prime looks like the pick of the litter of the 50km-ish plug in hybrids; will have to look at it. It has to pass the rear seat headroom and trunk space comparison to our current 2012 Civic.
I fully expect thing to tilt more in the future. Once 30 minute charging stations outnumber dino juice gas stations - even out in the sticks - and the electricity from them is competitively priced, then gas cars are over.
EV would be great most of the time, but we still have elders to visit who live beyond-EV-range away and in one case, in the sticks with no high-capacity EV recharging infrastructure nearby anyway.
If it was an EV as a second car, no problem, it would probably get 90% of all the use.
As for what EV? Just like the particular kind of geek that I am is closed-system resistant and therefore avoids Apple (and is disappointed by where Android, Windows, and (if a certain L.P. has his way) even Linux is going), I just don't like the "great car if you 100% buy into the ecosystem/religion" thing of Tesla. I'd prefer something that is more of a normal car that happens to be electric, rather than a cult object.
But with the single car requirement, what I actually want is a plug-in hybrid with enough battery to go about 100km on a charge. That too would make 90% of our mileage electric without sacrificing the dino juice powered instant go anywhere capability. But nobody makes those, or do they? The 2023 Prius Prime looks like the pick of the litter of the 50km-ish plug in hybrids; will have to look at it. It has to pass the rear seat headroom and trunk space comparison to our current 2012 Civic.
I fully expect thing to tilt more in the future. Once 30 minute charging stations outnumber dino juice gas stations - even out in the sticks - and the electricity from them is competitively priced, then gas cars are over.