SUV vs. Electric car

Interesting that SUV gas-guzzler drivers now, with gas so high, proclaim that they "don't drive it more than a few miles each way, so it doesn't matter".

Wasn't this just the very argument against Electric cars, that you couldn't drive them more than 100 or 200 miles without stopping to charge??

No one seems to notice the irony, that the SUV which were purchased under the theory that they can "go anywhere", now are defended as not needing to do so.

And those who claimed that a 160-mile-range EV was not enough, now claim they only need to drive 20 miles per day.

In reality, range, or the lack of it, was never an issue with an EV; if there was an EV in a family, everyone wanted to drive it, and the gas cars sat unloved, moved only to avoid the street sweeper; and those who got to drive the EV tended to feel,

"...IF I CAN'T TAKE THE EV, I DON'T WANT TO GO!".

This happened, again and again, predictable and certain. Give an EV a chance, and it becomes the car of choice!

That's the real reason GM was afraid to sell the EV1, because people who had one, wanted two; and if you had one, you never wanted to buy another gas Internal Combustion car.