Googler said:
It's not that I "can't make it work". I could make the bus or a bicycle work if I had to, but I'd have to give up seeing my family. The question is how much a consumer has to rearrange their life around a car. It's things like this that will inhibit mass adoption of EVs. The current range on the Leaf is very marginal for a majority of consumers.
It seems that you will have no shortage of people telling you how to drive the car you paid for.
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Just because it fits a majority of people who frequent this board, does not mean that it is a good fit for the average Joe or Jane Doe. Some people, like our friend here, find that the compromises necessary to do something that you (and perhaps even he) want(s) him to do are too dear. You need to let it (and him) go. You should be delighted that you both still have the economic and political freedoms to do this.
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Edit: I decided to take a trip on the freeway this morning after commute hours. I plotted a 44 mile round trip, all freeway. My Leaf was charged to 83%. I did everything but get physically run over. I never exceeded 67 mph. N o Stau, Sig Alerts, nothing but smoove sailin.' No fan, nothing but the radio. I grew three trees. My current state of charge is 25% with an anticipated range of 32 miles. 58% to go 44 miles. If you think this type of performance is going to have people trading in their Priusususus en masse, you smokin' sumptin.