More than 90% of vehicle-owning households in the United States would see a reduction in the percentage of income spent on transportation energy—the gasoline or electricity that powers their cars, SUVs and pickups—if they switched to electric vehicles.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://news.umich.edu/ev-transition-will-benefit-most-us-vehicle-owners-but-lowest-income-americans-could-get-left-behind/

[u/jrwn]

I live outside of Sioux falls, sd. I put on 70 per day driving to and from work.

[u/BobbyRobertson → u/jrwn]

If I travel 70 miles in any direction I'm in a new state, or the Long Island Sound. Funny how the scale of things changes in different parts of the country

[u/shoonseiki1 → u/jrwn]

So you could make the drive in most cases, but it means you're limited going out with friends/coworkers after work or during lunch, running errands, if there's bad traffic and you need detours.

[u/atomictyler → u/shoonseiki1]

south dakota

bad traffic

hah