So you average 220 miles a day. If you stop for lunch somewhere with a charger then you’d be golden.
That’s a valid point but the instant torque is always going to be there as the drive train just works differently from an inefficient ICE car. Of course if you pull away gently and drive in echo mode (whatever fuel it uses!), you will always increase your range.
It wouldn’t be high on my list of car choices either.
Funny you mention the Mustang Mach E as "SUV".
Just like an ICE vehicle, I always keep the fuel tank full just in case of emergency (natural disaster, power failure, weather).
You may need to wait for a few more years yet before the faster charging tech gets into EVs that are getting into your price range. Otherwise look at the used market. That is what people do now for ICE vehicles when new ones are a stretch for their budget.
Look beyond this year. The charging situation is changing rapidly. Electrify America for instance says that they expect to double their charging network by 2025. They are also replacing their first gen chargers with more reliable models. Other network vendors are doing similar. I suspect, by the time you are ready for an EV, the charging network will be fine, even in your area.
Due to how EVs work, there is very little efficiency penalty for more powerful motors. There are almost no parasitic losses like you would get in an ICE. A fast EV is probably about as efficient as a less powerful one. There can be a cost difference but that is about it. That’s why most EVs are on the quicker end of the market.
The US is such a large country that long travel distances are possible in several States, while in most of Europe countries, towns, and cities are in close proximity with each other. It is much economical for any country to have EV's and charging stations in the metropolitan areas where most of the people are living close to each other than in the urban areas where people or town are far from each other.
Just looked up the number of Tesla superchargers in Alaska ... only 2 locations with a total of 12 stalls! 😳
While the electric motor is the most efficient, that doesn't tell the reason why an ICE automobile has a greater drive range than a similarly constructed EV. The reason why an ICE automobile can achieve a greater drive range than an EV, even with its vastly inferior efficiency is because one gallon of gasoline contains 33.410107 Kilowatt Hours of energy (great density), and also because one gallon of fgasoline weights 6 pounds.
Yes, there is one location between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Also, Alaska is not very populated compared to most US States. The same can be said for the mid to Northern vast Canadian regions. The electric companies are involved is the installation of more charging stations in the three major cities, but since it gets extremely cold in the interior of Alaska (near Fairbanks), there is great possibility that no EV's are driven by residents in this area, at least during the winter. Also, a lot of people park automobiles outdoors (apartment dwellers, and even residents in family homes). For example, the major stores and supermarkets are found in Fairbanks, and one supermarket is located in North Pole. But since North Pole has a sales tax, most consumers travel from 10 to 100 miles to shop in Fairbanks, bypassing North Pole, unless they only need a few products instead of a lot of groceries, furniture, clothings, gasoline, and so on.
We produce plenty of natural gas here in the UK. But just have nowhere to store it so we export it to Europe in the summer and import it in the winter. Worked fine until the situation with Russia. That said the petrol prices here are much higher than in the states, so maybe that’s another reason that EV’s are growing in popularity here.
It’s true batteries are heavy. But the way I look at it is I don’t need to carry 500 miles of range around each day when my commute is close to 35 miles each way. Now if I had to go fill up at a petrol station I would never do it 150 miles at a time. But with an EV it charges whilst you sleep or in my case, work in the office. So it works much better than having to go find a petrol station. Especially as I live in the country and our local small independent one is very expensive.
By that definition, my full-size Range Rover is also a crossover
I'm sorry, but calling the best of the best of the off-road luxury vehicles a cross-over would be a bit odd, don't you think?
