adric22
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Sublime said:The point of that rambling in this thread is this: There isn't a huge usability gap (given the current state of charing speeds and locations) between the 24kWh LEAF and an 85kWh Model S (for me). Both are perfectly capable vehicles for 95% of the days out of the year. The over 3x capacity increase of the model S maybe buys me 2% more usability and neither would get me to 100% coverage.
I agree completely.. but having worked in the computer industry for 15 some-odd years, one thing has been constant. The vast majority of computer users will buy a computer 10x more powerful than they really need. When I used to work at a computer store years ago, we'd have customers come in all of the time and ask for my help in picking out a computer. They'd be looking at the most expensive things we had and ask me if it would work. So invariably, I'd ask them what they planned to do with it. They would often reply with things like "checking my email" or "updating my resume." So then I would explain that this other computer that was 1/3 the cost would do those things just fine. In fact, there would be very little difference at all for those tasks. In half the cases they still ended up buying the more expensive one.
Some people have a mentality that they are going to buy the absolutely minimum they need to get by. That is typically how I am. Other people think they need the biggest and best of everything. I think most people fall into the latter category.