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comment by tehstone
tehstone  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade

I suppose it depends on how urgent the trip is, typically after 200 miles you'll want a bathroom break and perhaps a meal. Along with pumping gas you'd be looking at 20-30 minutes anyway. Add to that the increase in battery technology and you start to see progress. I'm definitely an optimist on this but even if you got to a point where driving around town was done via electric and people rented gas cars for longer trips that would be a huge shift. But since that relies on people to change their habits it also assumes a certain sense of optimism.