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Most Joe's cannot afford two separate fleets of cars in their household, for city commute and for long distance trips. Even for city commute, daily round trip of 30km doesn't mean that 200km range is acceptable unless the car costs maybe EUR 5k. No idea how much is it in miles or football fields.


This is probably a product of location. I live in Houston, Texas, and have made multiple long-distance trips in my EV, including cross-country.

As a side note, looking up km to mi or feet is super easy using Spotlight (or the equivalent in your OS of choice): Cmd+Space to bring it up, and typing "30km" shows me it's 18.64 miles. (it also tells me my EV has a range of 445km, which is much more than 200km)




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