• CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    How often are you taking cross country trips on the spur of the moment? Take the advantages of owning an EV and then just rent something for the trip.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      Often enough and the trips can be for a few weeks. Checked car rental rates recently and a small SUV had a nearly $2K base rate.

      • AMoistGrandpa@lemmy.ca
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        17 hours ago

        Sounds like a plug in hybrid would be right up your alley. Many of the benefits of an electric vehicle (regen braking and the ability to charge at home, foremost) while still being able to fill up instantly using gas. Unfortunately you lose out on the basically-no-maintenance-required part of a pure EV, but frequent road trips are basically the ideal use case for a PHEV.