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Originally Posted by sor
I'd rather just have a weight reduction, which would help range somewhat.
After driving an e-tron across the US west a few times, even it's 222 mile range is fine for road tripping, and 99% of my daily use is less than 50 miles. If I can stop for 20 minutes every 2-3 hours of driving and then get back on the road that gets me to parity with road trips with ICE. Even the e-tron only added 38 minutes to a 12 hour trip over ICE.
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Ehhhhh… I'm calling BS to your claim of only adding 30 mins to a 12 hour trip. Yearly I drive from Jersey to Atlanta and that's 13 hours in my ICE X5. I make it from Jersey to deep NC before my first fill up. Then I make it from there to approx 70 miles from ATL before I top off for the last time. Those two stops with grabbing a bite is more than 30 mins. If you drive something with 220 miles range and stop every two hours you'll easily add at least 4 hours to that drive. Electric vehicles aren't even close to ICE vehicles when it comes to long drives.