re: #307 Targetpractice

If you’d made the same prediction even 10 years ago, I’d have agreed with you. Hell, even now, it’s not that far off the mark. Electric cars are still very much struggling to gain acceptance and it’s going to take time for folks to buy one rather than settling for a hybrid because they want a gas engine “just in case.”

One important thing to note is that different people have different lives. Sounds trite and silly, but it’s somethign that Conservatives often miss: “Electric cars are stupid because I have to commute farther than the range of a Leaf.”, or “Hybrids are stupid because I need a truck to haul stuff.”

Consider passenger trains - they make great sense in heavily populated corridors, like Boston-Washington, but much less sense in less populous areas. Similarly, a Tesla Model S, or other electric with similar range may be perfectly fine for many who live where there are lots of charging stations, but not so much for folks in, say, Montana, or Wyoming.

The thing is, they don’t have to be great in all circumstances. Just as a Volt makes no sense for the guy who has to drive 100 miles a day and haul a lot of stuff, so a big pickup truck with great hauling capacity makes no sense for a guy who commutes 15 miles each way.