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Old 11-30-2011, 11:55 AM   #30 (permalink)
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The problem is, Americans have been told that they can have it all, and so, that is the expectation. We operate with the assumption that we might, possibly, do anything we can think of in the future: Move large furniture; transport a soccer team; inexplicably find ourselves entered into the Indy 500.

My friend and I were discussing this in reference to electric vehicles, and we came to the conclusion that EVs would not be a viable option for Americans until those vehicles were able to transport four people 400 miles on a single charge. Forget the fact that almost no American requires that capability regularly (a rental car a few times a year would be a much better option), the fact that they might, one day, need a vehicle capable of doing that is enough to drive the average American away from EVs.
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