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To make your day I will add a post like that.

A typical weekend for me involves driving ~150 miles to leave my car in the cold and wet in the middle of nowhere for 8 to 9 hours while I wander around some mountains. Only 2 superchargers in the country and their not between where I live and where I go.

Is this unusual - absolutely (mind you plenty people here do similar things) - but range is an important factor to me. However, the main one is cost - absolutely no way will I spend more than £25K on a car.

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> Is this unusual - absolutely

Often these claims are made while saying that it's a normal requirement and that everyone has the same requirement, thus nobody will buy it.

Cost is an important factor. I think a lot of people already would like to buy one, if they're way cheaper (also way cheaper than £25k). I've seen articles about new battery tech which focusses on cost quite a bit. So hopefully the cost of a new electric car will continue to go down.

There's also a "law" somewhere which states that with every significant doubling of industry the cost will go down. It has to do with gaining more experience, not the usual "economies of scale".

If someone makes an EV with 350 mile range, decent specifications and costs £25K I'll buy two.

Edit: I don't care about performance - my current car as a 1l engine and it is fine.

I was surprised to hear from a friend that he just ordered a fully electric Volkswagen Up! for 13k€. There was a huge discount plus some government subsidy that saved him 10k. It's a small car, but if only used within the city it absolutely makes sense.

You use £ so I assume UK, but there are way more than 2 super chargers in the UK... So I assume youre talking about Wales as I dont think they have many. They do have plenty of other types of chargers though.

Actually - Google seemed to get this wrong the first time I searched I'm in Scotland and there appears to be five superchargers and there are indeed other chargers. I'd say maybe half the time I go anywhere I drive through Perth - so that's not too bad.

Still, I'm not going to pay way more money for a car that makes my days in the hills even longer! The cost aspect is by far the main reason I haven't bought an EV.

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