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Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars
(www.reuters.com)
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Most Europeans have one, max 2 cars per household. A fuckton of Europeans also go on holiday with their cars once or twice a year.
One car needs to work for most use cases. It's fine if you have more cars than people in the house that one of them is a 100 mile range commuter, but a different kettle of fish if the same car needs to do an 800+ mile trip to the Mediterranean in summer and a 500 mile ski trip in winter.
Also, I know a lot of people who do more than 100 km per day - and that is important. When you are buying a car, you aren't looking only at what you need now, but what you might need in the future.
Then a plug in hybrid or elecric car with range extender motor makes more sense. I think it's pretty dumb to be carrying around expensive, heavy batteries everywhere you go that only get used fully twice a year.