I’m not going to debate you
I’m not going to debate you with this. My job is to advocate for everyone, and not just for one individual’s experience. Respectfully it’s not all about you and your Volt and ELR. If you wish to debate me please take your points over to my social media, not here. Let’s get other readers to chime in. I’m wording this carefully and posting this so my other readers know: 234 miles is not an impressive range for an SUV that’s a BEV. That’s an impractical test figure: empty vehicle one driver. SUVs were designed for extended off road off grid capability when a gas station is far away. The electric ones need to be designed the same way too. When the vehicle gets older, has more cargo inside, cargo on the rear or on top like a bike rack, and/or is towing, the range significantly goes down, and this is a major factor in the usability of an SUV when used the way it was designed for. Jaguar i-Pace has 512 lb ft of torque, yet Jaguar shamefully refuses to tow rate i-Pace for this reason. And you cannot be successively rapidly supercharging your SUV BEV on the highway to compensate for low range. You can dangeroiusly make the pack too hot, and force the car into fail safe. 234 miles is BEV commuter car range. Even if you take 1-3 long distance trips a year, you never know how many more you have to take, and if you have the vehicle, then why not have that capability? So I’d wait until a BEV SUV with at least 250-300 miles range like the Porsche Taycan comes out, to not have this problem or quandary. Audi has a GT version of e-Tron coming soon with a bigger pack. Folks, it’s all about the range. And if people are going to make this so, then I say give them a range like a gas tank so they’ll be no more issue. This is why these same vehicles have 30 gallon gas tanks. It doesn’t mean you have to fill or charge them all the way up! But make the vehicle capable of doing so! These are other sources agreeing with me about these paltry ranges: Quartz i-Pace: https://qz.com/1446315/jaguar-i-pace-is-coming-for-tesla-with-a-battery-that-doesnt-make-sense/ Jalopnik on Mercedes EQC range: https://jalopnik.com/the-2020-mercedes-benz-eqcs-200-mile-range-is-a-disappo-1828812912 ArsTechnica on EQC range: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/09/the-new-mercedes-benz-eqc-electric-suv-goes-on-sale-in-2020/ And finally the cause of all this problem: we need to get rid of these tiny or smaller battery packs ASAP they’re doing more harm than good to things like the used car market, beside their gas emissions: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/28/continuous-ev-range-increases-will-drive-us-shifts-to-leasing-subscriptions-growth-in-the-used-car-market-part-2/ The goal is increase ranges, not restrict them!