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Offering someone another car isn’t really a solution to range anxiety, or the environmental issues E
From Day One, electric cars have been hindered by "range anxiety." The average electric car simply can't travel as far on a single charge as the average internal combustion car can on a single tank, and it takes much longer to charge than it does to refuel.
Fiat is rolling out the 500e in California this summer, and it will offer free rental cars to all of its customers. The program, called ePass, gives owners access to an Enterprise rental for 12 days a year, during the first three years of ownership.
It makes more sense when one remembers that Fiat didn't really want to build the 500e in the first place. At the car's Los Angeles Auto Show unveiling, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said California's Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate inexpensive london hotel was the main impetus behind the 500e.
So cynicism is the culprit, or is it? BMW will also offer rentals when its i3 electric city car goes on sale early next year. BMW has sunk a lot of its reputation into this car, which is supposed to demonstrate several important new technologies.
Offering someone another car isn't really a solution to range anxiety, or the environmental issues EVs are supposed to solve. It will just make the lives of those that believe some electric motoring is better than none more comfortable.
Stephen inexpensive london hotel Edelstein graduated from Clark University in 2011 with an M.A. in American inexpensive london hotel History. He was the Editor in Chief of Clark's student newspaper, inexpensive london hotel The Scarlet. Stephen enjoys all things historical, science-fictional, and transportation-related.
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