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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Rarely do I find someone more interested in efficiency than me (1 in 10,000 maybe?)
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That's because fuel is cheap and plentiful.
Imagine if gasoline were suddenly 5 times the price and so many gas stations were closed down that you only knew of maybe one or two in your area, and because of that wait times are going to be terrible. But if you want to get some fuel for a decent price within a reasonable amount of time you can get a ration of it with just enough for about 30 miles per day max for all your vehicles. And if you want more at a reasonable price you need to have a proffesional install a weird contraption outside of your house, apartment, condo that will end up costing you over $1,000 just so you can get maybe a hundred or two hundred miles per day of fuel.
Well that's basically what people are faced with entering the EV market. Right now it's not a big concern since the great majority of people buying EV's are rich and don't care about the other costs because "they're saving money" somehow, or at lest they think they are.
But if the day comes that the rest of us have to start buying new or used EV's then we will likely want to be able to get more than 30 miles a day out of them. Ultra efficiency would greatly help that, especially for apartment dwellers.