If you can't afford a Tesla...you look at other options.
Even if you *can* afford a Tesla, you should still look at other options.
On that note, I'm really digging the look of the new Ioniq5. If I still have my Volt in another 5 years and am ready to move up I can see a 5 year old used one of those being top of the list for me.
Higher storage capacity batteries need more energy to get from a zero/low to a full charge (we are talking two to four times the energy storage in the next five to ten years) now mix in people.... Today, L2 gets from a pretty low charge to a full charge in one night or maybe two with some driving to work in between.
It's only once you get north of 100kwh batteries, and
also assuming you fully deplete that battery every single day does L2 charging at 6.6kwh become limiting.
Your theoretical use case scenario is the actual real-world use case scenario of a tiny fraction of the population. Lets remember that the average American (and probably most Canadians) drive under 30 miles/50km a day. This is (not coincidentally) why the original Volt was based on 55km battery capacity.
The percentage of people who drive more than 200km a day regularly is tiny, and that can be done with a 30kwh battery. I know, because we used to own an Ioniq with that exact sized battery and did that exact type drive regularly. That car charges in about 5 hours.
So sorry, I'm not buying it that standard L2 is somehow going to be a massive problem anytime soon.
The L1 today is like the floppy disk back in the day. Once one drops it successfully expect the rest to shortly afterwards to save money. Manufactures are constantly looking at how to cut costs.
The floppy drive was dropped because nobody wanted or used it anymore.
Non EV owners might be surprised to discover how often people use that L1 chargers bundled with their cars. Heck, a lot of short to mid range EV owners use them *exclusively* for charging as they do what they need without any of the additional cost of installing an L2.
And consumers who are looking at buying their first EV are going to demand that comfort-inducing ability that they've got a charger anywhere they might need it...even if it IS slow as mollasses. It's there.
Summoned Model Y trying to navigate between parked planes and crashes into a $3.5M
Tesla Fanboi's have almost certainly already found some way to dismiss this as operator-error.
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