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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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Looking back over the past decade, it's fascinating to see how much technology has evolved.

In 2015, the Volkswagen e-Golf was one of the top EVs available, offering optional fast charging and a range of just 125 km.

Did anyone here drive an EV 10 years ago? What was your experience like?

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I disagree, this was an example of the mindset, that caused electric cars to be unpopular before the Tesla S.
Because the batteries were expensive, everybody made small cars that were basically useless for anything but very short trips, and sales of them were almost non existent for good reason.

This car came out even AFTER it IMO was shown to be a bad model to make such short range cars.

Luckily today VW-group makes many attractive models, that have good range and competitive prices. With the high quality throughout all components of the car many love here in Europe.