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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Americans won't forego the "convenience" of 15mpg SUVs, and you expect them to convert to cars that take ~8 hours to fill up the "gas tank?" Not gonna happen. Unless incredible leaps of technology are made, purely electric vehicles will never see major use as household transportation, only specialty functions like meter maid carts and maybe certain parts of public transit.
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Did I mention the marketplace yet? Supply and demand, anyone? When gas is $5+/gallon and people are paying hundreds of dollars/month just for their commute, and they're having trouble making ends meet, Americans will do whatever they have to. Don't think that just because we're Americans we won't behave in certain ways. People here have driven gas-guzzling SUV's and not cared about fuel efficiency so far because it was affordable to do so; when it becomes non-affordable, they won't do it anymore. It's that simple. If purely electric vehicles happened to fill a need at the right price point, people would use them (until something better was developed).