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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Or, know 1 person who owns an ICE you can trade vehicles with for those longer drives. I know several people who do.
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When I bought the Leaf I didn't leave on such long trips but once every other month. Back then trading for or renting an ICEV, or planing ahead and taking it nice and slow (lots of camping spots with outlets) or even just taking the bus made sense. But then my circumstances suddenly changed and it came to be two or three times a week that I'd have to drive so far. And keeping someone else's car half the week or constantly renting was no longer practical, and the bus just wouldn't work either. I did make the Leaf work for a while until I got stranded in the middle of nowhere at -15°F with a dead battery and an angry wife. At that point I decided it wasn't worth keeping the Leaf and basically traded it for the Avalon Hybrid.
All I know now is that gasoline is about a dollar more a gallon than it was not that many months ago.