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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
I make a 9-10 hour drive to see my family multiple times a year. I normally stop twice to get gas and use the bathroom, and that’s it. Sounds like you’d be adding most of an hour to my travel time each way. I’ve tried stopping longer and grabbing food, it’s not worth it for me.
With that said, I drive 25-40 miles a day the other 360+ days of the year, so it’d really make much more sense for me to have a short range EV and rent something for travel when I have too much luggage to fly.
No passenger rail. It’s car or a once a week bus that doesn’t even stop in the town my family lives in.
That would become a 15+ hour trip then…
Edit: On further investigation, it’s also not significantly cheaper than flying, and is much more expensive than fuel for driving.
Oh my God, why didn’t I think of that! Simply have more money, thank you internet stranger. My problems are solved!