• XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You’re an excellent case for my point. Most car-owning households in the US have slightly more than 2 cars. An EV covers your needs 335 days of the year and a gas car covers the other 30 days, yet people act like that’s why they need a 7 seat suv every day. I plugin hybrid will be my next move when I stop picking up lumber every weekend and put my little trailer back in use for the once a month “haul”

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      18 hours ago

      Yes, one EV can work, but only as a second vehicle.

      We’re actually trying to downsize from a minivan (we have three kids), to a 5-seater SUV for the family car. The minivan is super convenient, but fuel is expensive (and pollutes) and we both hate driving it. Unfortunately, most smaller SUVs have very little towing capacity, so we need to find something just big enough to tow what we need, but not so big that we lose all fuel efficiency.