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I've kind of had the feeling for a while that electric cars will be the compact fluorescent of the automotive world. It's a solution that will solve problems and be more effective than the old - until the better thing comes along.

I've kind of had the feeling for a while that electric cars will be the compact fluorescent of the automotive world. It's a solution that will solve problems and be more effective than the old - until the better thing comes along.

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The Hyundai Ioniq 5 can add 68 miles of range in 5 minutes; 210 miles in 18 minutes. Not as fast as gas, but not bad. Charging speed is only a factor if you're driving more than 300 miles without a break.

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Charging speed is only a factor if you're driving more than 300 miles without a break.

Which people do all the time. Nobody wants to drive 80 miles, then have to stop for ten minutes, and so on, and so on. And come on, you know that ten minutes would turn into twenty minutes, or thirty minutes, if there was any kind of hold up.

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Which people do all the time.

Weird. I drive 22,000 miles per year and the number of times I've taken my personal car more than 300 miles in one day over the last decade is zero.

Nobody wants to drive 80 miles, then have to stop for ten minutes, and so on, and so on.

Do the 18-minute charge and drive 200 miles between stops. That's barely time to take a piss and get the kids to stop whining about not getting candy.

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Assuming you have a charging station or some other means to charge it.