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Old 01-22-2008, 07:09 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SVOboy View Post
Assuming you would buy an EV given certain conditions, what would they be?

For example, for me I would do a conversion on my current car and would need to have a steady job, ~10k, and a reasonably short commuter but still one that is too long to bike every day (meaning something like a 20 mile each way commute) so that range would need to be ~100 miles.

What about you? What kind of specs and price would it take to go EV?
I have never driven an EV, but since I regularly have to drive longish distances and am on a very modest budget, I think for me to become seriously interested in an EV it would have to have something like this:

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