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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
..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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And student-mobiles. I could see getting one for my son or daughter to drive to school & back.
I rented an electric car in San Francisco back in November. Funny thing, we were on the road about 30 minutes (supposedly they run for 2 hours) when I looked down & noticed the charge indicator was showing the battery was down to 30%. I freaked out a little. Turns out I had left one of the turn signals on, which was draining the battery. After a stop at Starbucks, I started it up and the battery indicator showed it was back to 2/3 charge. I realized then, the 'remaining fuel' indicator was just as bad as it is in some cars, maybe worse.
