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Comment by mdavid626

16 hours ago

Are you assuming 250kW chargers? …and cars which can charge that fast?

Renault 5 EV charges with 11kW. This is the size of car I need.

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Workaccount2  15 hours ago

If you often mowed a town park, you wouldn't buy a hand-push lawnmower and then be upset about lawn mower technology.

The Renault 5 is a town car. Its specs are closer to a golf cart than a motorcar. It fills a niche, but if you are traveling often, a different EV would suite you better.

  • mdavid626  4 hours ago

    I see the confusion now.

    People assume everyone has the same resources as they do. Your point would be fine, if Renault 5 would be very cheap.

    But it’s not. It’s the car what many people can afford.

    Thinking that people have “misconceptions”, because they don’t buy expensive EV-s, which have good capabilities, is very strange.

    You say EV-s are good and people just don’t get it. But people who buy EV-s for 25k, their experience is SIGNIFICANTLY worse than in EV-s for 50k.

    These people are buying those cars, because that’s what they can afford, not because they are stupid to see that a more expensive car can do better.

    Look at 25k ICE cars. They offer lot more comfort regarding “charging”, as same price EV-s. They work in a city and outside city as well. No trade-offs.

    That’s my point, when I say “price and range”.

    ———- Renault 5 EV is a pretty normal car in Europe regarding its specs. Why would it be a golf cart?

ac29  8 hours ago

> Renault 5 EV charges with 11kW. This is the size of car I need.

AC only EVs dont exist in the US market any more AFAIK. Looking at the Renault 5 models currently available in the UK market, they dont have any AC only models either (maybe they do in other countries though).