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Originally Posted by jamesqf
All I'd have to do is look in a mirror :-)
It's not a matter of habits & expectations. With phones, it's the power of marketing, plus the fact that people generally can charge them every night. If they had to recharge 3-4 times a day, or ran out of charge in the middle of a call (text, &c), I think it'd be a different story.
Likewise with cars: if you make trips of 20, 40, or even 60 miles, an EV with an 80 mile range is fine. If you need to make trips of say 120 miles, it isn't.
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As you say, you use a non-smart phone. There would be reasons why that suits you but there are large (very large) numbers of people that have swapped to the smart phone. They changed their habits and expectations to match the new phone and now wouldn't swap back even if you paid them. "What, be cut off from twitter and facebook? What about all my facebook friends that live to hear about my every bowel movement?"
The same for EVs. For some people the limitations make them impractical or unusable. But there are vast numbers of people (as indicated in several articles mentioned earlier in this thread) where the range limitation would cause them little to no inconvenience. Yet they have range anxiety.