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Both are irrelevant for your sub-100-mile daily commute, and the additional initial charge for a twice-a-year road trip is a rounding error.

The additional range is nice for home charging when you regularly do 500-mile-plus daily round trips, but that's way beyond regular commute ranges, and someone like an on-location service technician will have the company pay for it anyways.

I won't say that nobody does it, but we're definitely talking about edge cases here.

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For me it would not be about commuting so much as about leisure. I work from home and so have no commute at all.

I’m a mountain biker I want to put a tow bar rack on the back with the bikes.

That will reduce range on its own and added with the long journeys to bike parks I would prefer to be able to not have to charge if I can avoid it.

Or at least to have more options on when, where and for how long I stop.


Either way I think the benefit for me would be after the vehicle is well-worn and only has 10 or 20% of its original range remaining.

If it was so much more efficient than average to begin with that could make the difference whether it was still viable for daily use including short commutes for a number of additional years when almost all other vehicle choices would require a new battery at that point.

Batteries are a bit like capacitors, and I think people are aware how some of the shoddiest capacitors were placed on motherboards for a while there before people figured out how substandard their lifetime was after it caused so many premature failures.

However the engineers who used about twice as much capacitance as the minimum to start with, whether it was intentional or not, were not struck nearly as bad.




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