On 29 Aug 2014 at 9:38, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > We need to stop focusing on range (and public charging). Focus on > educating drivers of the EV value-promise.
Maybe I'm just seeing this with older eyes than you are, but it seems to me that we've been trying to do just that for nearly a half century. It hasn't gotten us very far yet. In fact, I'd say that Tesla's range and their superchargers have probably put far more EVs on the road since 2008 than we "EV educators" have since 1967. (The fact that they're just bloody good cars doesn't hurt, either.) IIRC, the average person thinks that he needs about 150 miles of EV range. He doesn't really, but that's his perception. In most of the world, and certainly in the US, perception trumps reality. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of EV startups have stumbled over that sad truth. People have certain needs and expectations (they're not the same thing) for their cars. There's no percentage in fighting that. Now, if you're building something other than a car or light truck as an EV, that might be another matter. I think this is one reason that ebikes are an EV success story - potential customers' expectations for them are quite different from their expectations for 4-wheeled vehicles. They're also so cheap as to almost be an impulse purchase for some people. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
