• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    A really short range EV would make a great commuter for most people. Enough range to do the daily route 2 times with the heating/cooling at full blast and every accessory turned on.

    Range anxiety is for when you don’t have a charger at home, you insist on taking your EV on road trips while towing, and for extremely long commutes.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I was actually considering looking for an old Leaf for exactly this. This was the first summer I had two teen drivers in contention for one car and the sharing did not go as smoothly i has I hoped. While it seems silly to spend money on an additional car just for summer use, it was mighty tempting. Either of them could get to work for a round trip endurance of like 20-30 miles

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        1 month ago

        A Leaf as a first car might be ideal. Cheap to buy, cheap to run, barely fast enough to get in trouble. If I was not an apartment dweller, I’d like to have one for myself

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          1 month ago

          And they keep asking for gas money, it would be satisfying to reply “plug it in”