What’s your range?

Like a breakfast short order chef of yesteryear (mashed-up with an auto salesman) might ask, “How do you like your range?” Your answer, based on your pondering of your actual commuting, errands, appointments, and visitations, will largely determine whether the cost of your EV is higher or lower. So, rolling along, perhaps the most important question for you to consider is how much range you need. Do you need an EV with a 300-mile range, when many today are happily driving plug-in hybrids which go 35 miles in electric only mode. And while EVs offering 300 miles between charges are already here, and luxury EVs with extensive batteries can travel 500 between plugging in, a lesser range EV is and will be available to you at less cost. Since the average American drives 40 miles a day, and since only five percent of the average vehicle trips in the U.S. are over 30 miles, canoodling your range requirement is a priority.

Can the U.S. electrical grid handle the charging load. Yes, with the planned and anticipated improvements andexpansions. The grid will grow over time to allow more electrons from sustainable sources to flow. Our current grid, with current anticipated enhancements, will serve us fine for the next decade of charging. For the 2035 horizon new transmission lines and storage technologies will need to be online. Happily, with dramatically more EVs being sold, battery technology will continually improve, with newer and better electron storage media and methods regularly coming online. And end-of-useful-life battery recycling is also rapidly advancing.

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BTW, pictures accompanying this article are from our recent video, 2022 EVs from A to V. Why not to Z you may ask? Because the V in the title stands for a new entrant into the global EV marketplace, Vinfast, an EV maker with a mega-factory in Vietnam.

Vinfast, an all-EV maker with mega-factory in Vietnam, revealed EVs at last LA auto show.