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Originally Posted by trademaster
I think the recharging problem is exaggerated because people don't think it through completely. Consider the fact that with an electric car, if you plug it in every night when you get home, you will always leave your house in the morning with a full charge. With a new Tesla Model D, that means you have around 300 mile range every day without ever having to stop for a fuel up at any point in time. So if your daily commute is below ~300 miles, you will never have to stop and fuel up. If you live in one of the areas with, "supercharger" stations, you can also recharge to half capacity in 20 minutes if for some reason you forge to charge at night or something. Unless you plan to road trip with the car, there are really no advantages to hydrogen vehicles in regard to recharge/refuel time. In fact, electric will be more convenient most of the time because your car will, "refuel" while you sleep instead of having to pull off at a station.
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this is how I see it.. I work ~25 miles from home, for me any electric car will work that has at least a 60 mile range, it will get me home and back..
now my company offers free charging as a work perk, so we have a lot of electric vehicles, of 2500 or so employees we have about 200 electric or plug-in hybrid employees..
so in this case, they charge at home and at work and have ~8 hours in between their drives so their vehicles are always "full" for their daily work commute to and from work.
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however.. This is not true for all of them..
people that live in an apartment don't always have access to power to charge from home, and they are relying on the company for their power, which is fine as long and you don't have to go anywhere over the weekend I guess.
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I have solar on my house, I generate ~35 kw/hr a day on average.. so an electric car would be ok for me, but every one I have seen are butt ugly and no one makes one in a convertible so again I will stick with my Camaro.