eclecticflower said:
Oh, but it CAN be used like an ICE vehicle and already is. The available power sources for ICE vehicles doesn't mean they're at the gas station every day; they just have that convenience, since ICE vehicles are well-established. The LEAF is a different animal altogether - we recharge every day and sometimes more. IMO, people should adjust their paradigms, plan to recharge their BEV within a shorter time frame (at their homes/businesses or other available opportunities), in the interim of wide-spread availability of public EVSEs. Public stations can be used, if desired, if/when available and if/when required (more are in the works for further range). I actually thought this might be a problem when I first bought my LEAF (where can I charge???), but it simply hasn't been (my paradigm shifted). It's a rare ICE vehicle driver that fails to plan for a fill-up, completely empties their tank and strands themselves routinely, so the "typical" thinking on managing BEV fueling needs to broaden.
the world you are using your EV in and ours may not share the qualities, like traffic patterns, climate and the ability to recharge.
in the short time I have had my vehicle I have not even come close to running out of "juice" however that is because I have altered the way I use the vehicle. In a perfect world, IE: a EV with about 2x the current range of the LEAF, I could get in my car in the morning, go about completing a few hours worth of errands without any worries or range anxiety. what I have found myself do is limiting my trips to singular "missions" and not deviating from a pre planned itinerary. I think that the fundamental issue is that where you say people need to adjust the way they do things, I am advocating making the EV experience more like the ICE experience, because in our world here in FLA the ability to charge on the fly is almost non existent.