Emergency portable chargers will become a thing.
As battery tech improves and cars get above the 500 mile per charge threshold, range anxiety won't be a problem.
Even now, there's DC3 charging stations at enough spots that there's no excuse to lose all your juice on a road trip. If you end up with a dead battery in the middle of nowhere, that's on you. With cars like the EV6 and Ioniq 5, charging time won't even be that big of a deal to get you from 0 to 80 in 18 or so minutes. Same amount of time to fill up, take a piss, and get snacks at a gas station.
The thing is that its a thing. It is still new(ish), it is still a change. When you run out of gas in an ICE car, any LoneStooge with a gas can will be able to save you. I carry jumper cables around and have jumped dozens of cars including my own on several occasions, as a 17 year old I once bummed a gas can off a gas station clerk (they inexplicably didn't sell them at the convenience mart) so I could buy a gallon and bring it back. As I typed this I didn't even know if there is any point to jumping an EV car and found this.
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Do not use another electric vehicle to jumpstart your battery. EVs are not equipped for this task as they discharge more slowly and cannot supply the extra power. Instead, use a gas-powered car or a portable jumpstart device."
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Sure, there are workarounds, and ultimately its just like if you break down in the middle of nowhere. Call for a tow. The difference is that probably since the 1950s there are few parts of this country where you would have to legitimately be worried about finding a gas station and certainly wouldn't plan your gas station stops ahead of time on a road trip while you might consider finding charging points along your route for an EV.
The battery stuff is interesting, because I have seen plenty of reporting suggesting we are hitting a limit of the theoretical capacity of Li Ion batteries and that future advances will require future tech. I am not super well read on this so I stand to be corrected.
I'm not wholly against EVs, but I think the price premium is still tough to justify on a strictly economical basis (although getting closer every year) and the functionality of them from charging to road trips puts barriers in place for multiple different groups of people (no place at home to charge, regular long trips, etc.) When they work for the person, good, more power to them, but I'm under no delusions currently that the entire personal vehicle fleet in this country can become electric in a decade nor should it be forced through with subsidies.
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