But charge points can be installed anywhere with an emphasis on high density areas where people park on the street. I saw this a lot in Europe.
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In the US or Norway? And is that presales or actual units delivered? I mean Toyota or Honda sell +25k Corollas or Civics per month in the US market.
Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place, but it seems like Toyota sold twice as many Camrys as Tesla did Model 3s first quarter of 2019.
Indeed it would be. You suggest a very good idea, which one or other manufacturer’s marketing department will try to take advantage of soon enough. Sadly, formula/entry rules may prohibit an EV from a repeat of things such as this video describes. Nobody thought of Volvos, let alone estate cars, the same way afterwards.
The article I linked to was about Norway.
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I think they mean Norway. It was the Leaf and then the Tesla. (from this article)
Nissan’s Leaf electric car was the top-selling car in Norway last year, while in March, the Tesla Model 3 was the biggest seller. Together with the company’s Model S and Model X, Tesla sold 5,822 cars, corresponding to a 31.7 percent market share.
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I’m not nieve that EV will replace ICE, and if you can give me 200 real world miles on a charge with the same performance I have today that can fit 4 adults, weighs less than 3200lbs, and still be competitively priced alright.
$30k for the electric equivalent of a Mazda 6, now we are getting somewhere. But I see a bigger intersection of EV, self drive, and ride or time share than I do simply the demise of ICE. In 20 to 30 years car culture will not be the same as now outside of maybe classic cars. I’ll keep my 77 VW convertible running fuel as long as possible, even if it means distilling my own ethanol. At some point we will all be eating Taco Bell and have self driving cars.
BMW already has the i3 and the i8. They have been on the road for some time now. With the eMini they are just expanding their electric line to an existing chassis.
But yeah, the European manufacturers seem to be lagging when it comes to electric automobiles. Smart has been advertising that in two years, they will be electric only, and BMW has been extolling their electric cars, but VW? Renault? Fiat? Can’t think of any electric cars in their offers at the moment.
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VW has the eGolf (I’ve driven one — great fun), and the company has a whole line of EVs in the works, due in 2020.
Fiat has the 500e and Renault the ZOE.
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As far as range goes, I think what will help electric cars replace gasoline/diesel cars will be a network of chargers, where almost all parking includes a charger. Going out to eat? The restaurant parking will have a charger at every parking space. Same with supermarkets, or parking at your place of work. Your car will hook up when you park it in the garage. People will stop thinking about range, as the car takes care of making sure it’s topped off.
Of course, we are far from that, and that’s why we think of charging. It’s still too scarce, never mind more time consuming. If the car would always recharge whenever it’s parked, then waiting for a recharge would be something no one thinks about. But for now, we have to do the extra step of plugging the car in ourselves, and that makes it a chore.
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Are you kidding?
And Fiat is promising an electric Fiat 500 in 2020.
ETA @teknocholer beat me to it.
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The bass player in the husband’s band has a Prius (model and year unknown). He fits his amp and all his stuff in it and claims he’s comfortable. He’s 6’7".
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No!!! Not Taco Bell!
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That was my thought, too. Why? Is it for methane harvesting? 
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