Yup. It's not the price of the car that prevents me personally from buying electric, it's the fact that I live in a condo and have no way to charge at home. Combine that with the fact that I do 6 hour+ drives on a fairly regular basis, and charging infrastructure concerns are the biggest thing keeping in a gas powered car.
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Yeah, I think your case is an outlier where ICE cars still make sense. The majority of people don't drive that far - the average driver in the USA only drives 37 miles per day.
I will drive that many hours in my EV but I'm happy stopping to charge half way. Its twenty minutes I get to go to the bathroom, have a drink and eat if I want to. No way I want to be driving six hours non stop with no break.
I agree with you (and in fact I just did a road trip between the San Francisco Bay Area and Las Vegas via Death Valley in my EV) but it's probably not ideal for everyone.
I just don't understand how they not going to the toilet or filling up with fuel during six or more hours non stop.
Six hours in the UK can be over 450 miles at motorway speed, very few ICE cars can do over 450 miles in six hours on one tank of fuel with a safety margin.
450 miles at motorway speed rather than hyper mileing at 60mph (preferably 56mph) seriously dents your economy EV or ICE.
Its really shocking to me that this isn't the number one priority. It's clearly a big issue for a lot of people.
Tax credits and other government rebates are almost never effective for anything, because companies just increase their prices. One of the reasons solar power is more expensive in the USA compared to other countries is because of the 30% tax credit. The tax credit just brings the price down closer to what it should actually be.
In my area there's a $4k rebate on heat pump HVAC systems... As a result, quotes here are around $4k higher than quotes for addresses in the next county.