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Part of the problem is people have gotten used to traveling long distances convieniently.
1000 years ago people traveled on foot, at best you might get 20-30 miles in a day, 50 if you really pushed it.
200 years ago people traveled by horse, waggon, etc... the distance per day was still in the 50-60 mile range.
The later Steam locomotives were capable of going about 100 miles before having to refill the water tanks.
Now we think nothing of traveling 400-500 miles before stopping for 5-10 minutes to refuel, and that is the main reason most don't want to adopt an electric car is the range, and the time it takes to recharge compaired to an IC engine.
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