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I went full EV a month ago with an Ioniq 6. Love it so far.
“These figures include both battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid EVs.”
Most people in the us drive less than 30-40 miles/day, which is well within even plugin hybrid battery range.
They are effectivly one in the same.
Plug in hybrid is great for those 1-2 times per year that you need to drive a thousand miles to suffer through holidays with the in-laws.
Why don’t you just take our nationalized high speed rail system?…oh wait…
That hit right in the feels, man. My city (metro area: 550k pop) has exactly two trains per day. Both arrive at about 2am and take over 8 hours to reach another major metro area. It's pathetic.
I love going to Europe and being able to take the train everywhere, both inside the cities and between them. No, it's not perfect, and both DB and the UK trains are having major service issues since they were outsourced to private agencies, but it's still so very much better than the transit desert that is the US.
The US is building out more transit right now, mostly in streetcars and metros. We're starting to make headway on that, but our intercity connectivity (outside of the NE corridor) is just lame.
Cincinnati?
That’s the commonly cited example among rail advocates. Yeah Ohio rail currently sucks, but the proposals I’ve seen for intercity rail seem quite robust. That said, you guys made a huge blunder selling that railroad.
No, Spokane. We are a terrible example of how to do rail in any form.
When I saw that they sold the rail line... It's up there with Chicago selling all of their streets to a Saudi backed investment firm for 75 years.
Yeah that one’s gonna cost them a lot down the road. They might need state assistance to buy that thing out.
Meh, you end up stopping every three hours or so anyway. I drive around 450 miles to the Holidays in an EV and it doesn't even take that much longer. People really seem to underestimate how long their pitstops are on most of these trips.
Where does that figure come from?
Yeah, to put that in to context for Germany, sales are still generally down compared to before Corona. By a lot. 2.496.373 Cars for 2023, 3.058.011 Cars for 2019, that's 22% less new Cars generally. There's also the fact that some people are still waiting for their cars. Two colleagues of mine ordered last year...they still haven't gotten their car. Both didn't order BEVs though. Another colleague bought out the lease on his and is going to drive it until the wheels fall off (or, like we say in Germany "Bis das der TÜV uns scheidet", meaning until it's not economical any more to keep it road worthy), which is also something two of my friends did, simply because there isn't anything on the market right now that they want.
So yeah, from my personal surroundings, i don't think it's going to grow that much more.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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