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<blockquote data-quote="gone" data-source="post: 306973" data-attributes="member: 5899"><p>100% agree, although now post-COVID I do travel less out-of-town with more meetings conducted via Zoom videoconferencing.</p><p></p><p>Still, my "EV criteria" has always been: driving from Edmonton to Calgary and then a <u>minimum</u> of 1 hour in Calgary, before needing to recharge, at REALLY COLD temperatures (ie. -30 C. and colder). So that's roughly a 4-hour highway driving time. There's no way I"m stopping (for example) after 1.5 hours to recharge in Red Deer, to ensure I'm not stranded on the highway but as well, due to the wasted time for that stop. I just checked the Edmunds "real-world tested" stats again and the only vehicle which likely comes close to meeting that criteria, is the 2022 Lucid Air Dream with a sticker price of about US$170,000.</p><p></p><p>I'm confident they'll advance the technology in future and create batteries that last longer in the ++ cold. Until then, no EV for me. I'll keep driving my ICE which gets me to Calgary and back again, on one tank of gas.</p><p></p><p>And then there's the "elephant in the room": where do we get all the electricity to power our EV world??? The only viable option looks to be nuclear and we're a long ways from having the needed power grid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gone, post: 306973, member: 5899"] 100% agree, although now post-COVID I do travel less out-of-town with more meetings conducted via Zoom videoconferencing. Still, my "EV criteria" has always been: driving from Edmonton to Calgary and then a [U]minimum[/U] of 1 hour in Calgary, before needing to recharge, at REALLY COLD temperatures (ie. -30 C. and colder). So that's roughly a 4-hour highway driving time. There's no way I"m stopping (for example) after 1.5 hours to recharge in Red Deer, to ensure I'm not stranded on the highway but as well, due to the wasted time for that stop. I just checked the Edmunds "real-world tested" stats again and the only vehicle which likely comes close to meeting that criteria, is the 2022 Lucid Air Dream with a sticker price of about US$170,000. I'm confident they'll advance the technology in future and create batteries that last longer in the ++ cold. Until then, no EV for me. I'll keep driving my ICE which gets me to Calgary and back again, on one tank of gas. And then there's the "elephant in the room": where do we get all the electricity to power our EV world??? The only viable option looks to be nuclear and we're a long ways from having the needed power grid. [/QUOTE]
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