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LOL. The average American drives 35 miles a day. They would be fine charging once per week. With a fuel cost ranging from 2 to 3 cents per mile economics is going to drive gasoline passenger cars out of the market, but there will always be conspiracy theorists claiming that market forces are some plot against them. I would enjoy finding the conspiracy theories surrounding the replacement of horses with gas cars. I bet it was about how it was a trick to enrich oil and steel barrons.
How does this conflict with my factually accurate statement?
Because the only situation where electric cars aren't more cost effective or practical than gasoline cars is if you drive more than 250 miles a day. In all other cases they beat gasoline by a long mile. The only other opposition are people who are willing to spend a lot of extra money for no reason other than because the feel their status is affected by the fuel their car uses. They are silly people.
I'm pro EV and still disagree because of the facts.
Firstly, you addressed averages. That seems to confuse you. That means 50% drive more than the average. Some drive much more. Because of the large distances in America, current range limitations only cover roughly 80% of all non- commercial vehicle travel.
Europeans have smaller differences and this is reflected in their 90% numbers. Want to call them edge cases or out layers, fine. But they exist. Today, EVs don't satisfy 100% of driving requirements. But they do address the majority. That's what matters. As such, your lol and addition doesn't change anything. The fact remains, for the US and Europe, respectively, 20% and 10% of drivers are unable to use EVs because of range limitations.
As for cost effective, that's an entirely different discussion. Flatly, rarely are they cost effective. The only area which this looks to be true is the evolving commercial trucking segment.
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