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haha it's probably been a while since an electric car turned your head they aren't novel anymore though they do remain rare under 1% of new car sales here in the US lagging where a lot of folks thought they'd be a lot of the normalcy comes from range issues being satisfied we no longer think about these as having range in the double digits most of the cars that are coming to the market now are in the 200 250 mile range per charge that would be Chevy Volt the coming Tesla Model 3 newly announced Jaguar I pace and the new hyundai ioniq battery electric new research by bloomberg new energy finance suggests that by 2040 thirty five percent of all new cars sold worldwide will have a plug and by 2025 those kinds of cars will have a lower total cost of ownership than those that are combustion only a new novel study from MIT did some interesting muxing of data they took a look at second by second gps tracking of drivers in texas california and georgia added that to a national driver habits database also looked at real-world fuel economy of the vehicles and factored in local temperature which can affect the range and output of a car's battery out of all that they deduced that eighty-seven percent of current trips in america can be handled by the current state of the art plug-in cars and the remaining thirteen percent or so would be handled by better more prevalent car show another new survey from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute shows another piece of the discussion and that is the livability of charging cars it's the number one thing that kind of works on someone's mind after range itself researchers Brandon shut lee and michael sivak found that drivers would want to decide each time their car is charged not via some automatic authorization they would prefer pre-negotiated pricing though not the variable spot market were used to at the gas pump and would prefer smart charging but where the car and the infrastructure talked to each other to figure out when to do it based on using renewable energy it wasn't that long ago you had a big rift in the auto industry between companies who believed in plug and battery cars and those that didn't a conversation now though is has that happened because of must sell regulations or real consumer pull through and a lot of this research is working on that answer you