I just want a 15 to 20 year old EV or PHV coupe for under $4k

Probably need to wait about 10 more years then, for the new cars to be used cars :)

Median price includes used. We’re not talking about a used R2.

50K is comparable to a similarly sized ICE truck.

and people will be more used to the idea of taking a short break after driving a few hours.

How “short” of a break? After how many miles, is the question.

For example, I’ve done a Texas to NY run in 23 hours clock time. Can I do that, with short breaks after driving a few hours to charge? Or a NY to Illinois trip in under 11 hours?

No. But, sometimes, you really do need to get from point A to point B as rapidly as you can.

We would need to get range up to about 900 miles on a charge, to make is more feasible, as 900 miles is about the max one can drive in a 24 hour period.

You may think these are just pipe dreams of impossible to meet requirements, and it’s true, they are on the outside of what a typical person would need. However, it is a lost capability that needs to be filled.

For example, designing cars so you don’t sit for an hour to charge. You pull up, 2 people (Or yourself, hopefull) swap the battery rack for a new rack, of pre-charged batteries. As long as we can eek out 300 miles on a single charge, that could work. But we need infra for that, and industry standards.

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What $20 rental?

Those do not exist anymore.

Truck rentals start at $50 now, when all fees are in.

Trucks and SUVs are popular because they can be made cheaper due to government subsidies and lax emissions laws that exempt them.

That’s on top of the massive tariff in place for any truck imported into the US. Its a main reason the Big 3 basically stopped making sedans.

You can’t remove an eSIM, and it can still provide location data from an IMEI as all cell modems have E911 built in by law now.

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