As someone that will probably never daily an EV, I literally have dozens of family members and friends with mostly teslas, but few have Porsche taycan and Audi e-trons. Except for the Porsche and Audi people, everyone else said they would never go back to gas. Mind you they ALL have gas cars in their family except for 1 couple (both drive model Y's). I work from home and my daily commute is just a 10-15 mile round trip to drop off the kids at school/day care. My wife the same, for both of us an EV makes sense as we have a house with a garage and we can charge at home. Where it doesn't work is twice a month I drive to lafayette and back for work. That commute is too far for ANY EV currently on the market, including the Lucid Air. The max distance is in a very controlled environment going under 60 mph and and not running AC etc. So 20-30% less is very much to be expected. Which doesn't matter if you have a 250 mile battery capacity, but commute 15 miles a day, you charge once a week or less often. Also I like to take road trips to TX and FL and that would be inconvenient to have to stop for long periods of time to charge.
All that to say, they are very practical cars if you have a home and garage and a "normal" commute. Problem with the Chicago situation is the extreme cold draining batteries and Tesla chargers not working and high population of people living in apartments and townhouses.
All that to say, they are very practical cars if you have a home and garage and a "normal" commute. Problem with the Chicago situation is the extreme cold draining batteries and Tesla chargers not working and high population of people living in apartments and townhouses.
