EV Battery with 700+ Mile Range

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Even a couple of hours is ridiculous.

I make several drives each year of 400 or 600 or 800 miles. I'm sorry, but pausing for two or three hours to recharge is ridiculous.

Also, the price of most EVs. I have NEVER spent more than $22k on a car, and that was a foolish extravagance some 20 years ago. My current car is a 2017 Honda Fit that I purchased in 2018 for around $20k. I am always astonished when I read the current typical price of a car, and I always ask myself, "What are they thinking?"

I get needing to finance your first car. But at that you should be financing as cheap a car as fills your needs. You pay it off. You put the car payment into a savings account, and when you go to buy your next car you have enough money to pay for it outright. You do NOT take on a loan that has your car "underwater", meaning you owe more that it is worth. You buy what you can afford, preferably with money saved.

When my older son was buying his first car he had about $5,000 to spend. This was in about 2004, I'm forgetting the exact year. We looked around, and he found a car within that some of money.

Several years later older son had only about $4,000 to spend. We found a car within that limit.

Both sons paid cash. No car payment. It's not that hard.