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Originally Posted by Christ
So for a few long trips a year, its better to buy, register, and insure another car?
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Suppose it's not a few long trips per year? Suppose you have an EV with (just for instance) an 80 mile electric range, and you regularly make trips of 100 miles. So you drive 4/5 of the way on electricity* and 1/5 on the generator: even if the generator is only half as efficient as using a plain IC-engined car, aren't you still cutting fuel use by 60%?
*Though of course you would not really run the batteries to empty, then run a generator big enough to drive the car, but instead would have a much smaller generator running most of the time.