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I think 300 to 400 miles still is too short for many. I would want something (as would many others) that can tow a 28' trailer from PA to FL straight through with cargo in the back of the vehicle. For a local commuter maybe but I don't see it in the near future for anything more. I did post about the heavy trucks they made back in the 1920s so I could see an electric truck application in city limits too. Those trucks I posted about still work too.



Can you name me one vehicle today, commercially available and in use, that can go 1100 miles (Philly to Miami) in one shot while hauling a load? Other than a diesel locomotive that hauls about 2-3000 gallons of fuel, I know there is no passenger car or pickup truck that can come close, so you are now wanting the electric to do double what any known vehicle can do with technology that has been around 100 years? Perhaps an OTR Truck, if it has 250 gallon or larger tanks and gets better than 4-5 mpg, for a cost of about $800 in fuel. But I don't see anyone really talking about electrifying OTR trucks either. IF we talk about increasing efficiency of shipping loads cross-country, thent that typically involves moving to rail, and if we greatly restored our rail network to what it was in the early part of the 1900's, that would be a huge boon. But for apples to apples passenger cars, it's hardly a fair request. Shoot, most passenger cars have to stop at 400 miles to fill up, unless you've got a VW TDI that can go around 700. Even my car, that gets 33 on the interstate at 70-75 has to stop at around 500. That's 7 hours of straight drive time, which is a lot more than the vast majority of Americans would ever drive between stops. I've driven from Connecticut to 19 miles shy of the Georgia line in one shot (minus gas, coffee and piss, no other stops), but I'm not the average. And if they can get the recharge time down to say 5 minutes, then that's the same time it would take to fully tank a 16 gallon tank on most passenger cars.

Besides, that's the whole point, replace local commuters and family cars, that's the vast majority of vehicles on the road today besides OTR haulers.