How many miles per day do you drive?

[LSK]

One of the knocks on electric cars is the limited range which is roughly 100 miles.

How far do you drive in a normal day?

[bigwillq]

1. Normal day

About 30-35.

Some days it's well over 100.

[Straight Shooter]

2. I average 15 miles per day.

Most of that is driving to where I hike. But I work from home, so my mileage is not typical at all.

I think 100 miles capacity is reasonable for most people, though, if they don't think it's too much trouble to recharge the car every 2 or 3 days.

[bigwillq]

4. I love your sig line pic.

:bounce: :hi:

[Straight Shooter]

6. Thanks. It stays there until the traitors are impeached.

Hopefully imprisoned, too.

:hi:

[bigwillq]

15. I am hoping for the same thing.

:hi:

[valerief]

3. Half that. Gasoleeches squelched the electric car at the turn of the

century, and after its resurgence in the 90s, they squelched it again.

Great movie "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

[KittyWampus]

17. Sherry Boschert was just on NPR today around 3pm. She verified that. We already have the technology

to make cars that go 150 on a charged battery.

And those batteries last at least 100,000 miles.

These cars have already been made.

Ford recalled the ones they made for California and crushed them after watering down CA's mandate for 0-emission fleets.

[Radio_Lady]

28. I have a Mercury which has been driven since Oct. 1997. It just passed 83,900 miles today.

Can anyone do the math for me for approximate miles per day?

We're retired, and I have no clue how many miles I drive. Where's the calculator? Help, please!

Thanks in advance.

Let's see -- where do I start...?

[Mnemosyne]

29. 24.005722460658

based on 9 yrs 7 months = 3495 days


Hope it's close enough. :hi:

I drive about 20 - 25 miles a week, don't get out much. :)

2.857142857142 per day avg.

[Radio_Lady]

39. Wow, vickiss, I'm thoroughly impressed. I've avoided math all my life...

I still count with my fingers and toes. Calculators saved my life, but now that I have a math-aptituded husband, I don't use them either.

Thanks for the wave!

[Mnemosyne]

41. You are quite welcome RL! :) n/t

[Redstone]

5. About two; we live in town. Hey, but I'll bet that 90 percent of your answers will fall well

within a reasonable range for an electric car.

My only problem with electric cars is the pollution shifting (from the point where the car is recharged to the point where the electricity is generated). I've been to Black Mesa...

Redstone

[LSK]

10. ive seen it posted that if cars are charged overnight at home

Then there is no additional drain on our grid.

I wish I had that post, it was in the enviromental forum a few months ago.

[madokie]

22. Not much power, grid wise, is used at night so yes that is right

there is very little difference in energy use for a little generation or a lot

[hlthe2b]

7. 36 round trip

It's a catch22... no direct way to travel via mass transit (bus would require three transfers and over 90 minutes each way), absolutely no way to ride a bike even if I got an electric assisted on--highway restrictions disallow and no side streets that don't wind miles out of the way...

I'd dearly love an all electric--one of those California Rav4s would have been perfect for me...

If there were something available and affordable, hell, I would have approached my employer about installing a recharge station... It would cost pennies for them and far less than they have to reimburse me for personal vehicle use when I travel for outside meetings.


I drive to and from work, stop off for errands only along the route and walk to do nearly everything else on weekends (live in town, work out in the foothills).

[monktonman]

8. Zero.....

Ride my bike.

[JeffR]

38. What monktonman said

unless the weather's crappy, in which case I hop on the subway.

[Barking Spider]

58. same here

I bike and walk.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. 0 to 2.

On most days. That's when I drive in my old beat up van, which gets maybe 10 mpg.

I use the camry for the long distance stuff.

[KittyWampus]

11. Just heard an expert on NPR refute the lie about 100 miles. An electric battery can do 150 miles

edit- her name is Sherry Boschert.

Cars have already been manufactured and are on the road that do 150 miles.

Sherry drives a Toyota RAV (?) that gets 150.

Ford manufactured the EV (?) and then, after lobbying California to water down its mandate for zero emission cars... they DEMANDED the cars they'd made back from California and then crushed them.

[Rosemary2205]

31. That was GM not Ford -- Ford gets enough bad press as it is.

BTW - Jay Leno's 1906 electric car gets 150 miles on a charge too. It's absolutely criminal that electics have not gained anything in 100 years.

[Wcross]

12. On a work day 84 miles.

I make no excuse for choosing the place I live at. I am not suited to living in a suburb or city, I am far too sensitive to noise and rude people to deal with it successfully.
I AM however planning on leaving my employer within a year or two and try my own thing at home.

The other drawback for electric cars is the power has to be generated at a power plant. Unless we build a heck of a lot of solar/wind/hydro generation plants we will still be polluting.

[LSK]

13. I have a 5 mile commute to work

Then roughly 15-20 miles on weekends to visit family and shop.

[HockeyMom]

14. 2 miles

I rent and when my lease was up last year I moved closer to work.

[Eric J in MN]

16. 15 miles in the average day. NT

NT

[FightingIrish]

18. I do 15 miles per day but when the weather is good,

I do it on my bike. I'm building a new office that will be only three miles from my home.

[wakeme2008]

19. 10 miles a day

Less on most weekends. :)

[BayCityProgressive]

20. work day

30-40 miles..weekends..prob about 10 if that

[madokie]

21. 30 or so miles if that much

electric would be perfect for us for 99% of our driving

[yourout]

23. Too many.

As a contract engineer it varys but averages 100 miles a day or so.

[H2O Man]

24. Average day = 0 to 3.

A couple times a month a few more.

[Dinger]

25. 50-60 Miles A Day

I drive 40 miles each day, round trip to work, and sometimes a few more miles a day for errands, meetings, etc.
Ilive in a rural area, so it's expensive, believe me.

[MichiganVote]

26. Same here.

[karlrschneider]

27. Ten.

n/t

[Rosemary2205]

30. twice a week I drive 700 miles in a day.

Gas will have to hit $15 a gallon before it gets cheaper for me to fly and rent a wheelchair lift van on the other end.

[Pied Piper]

32. I ditched my car more than 10 years ago

Granted, I live in the middle of the city, and I walk to work. I take the bus or the subway everywhere else, almost every day. I occasionally rent a car for out-of-town trips, but my monthly transportion bill is about $50 (including taxis); no car insurance, no car payment, no gas, no parking fees, no inspection stickers, no maintenance, no tickets. I realize I'm lucky, but I'm trying to do my part. In the beginning, I did it because of the expense; now I do it by choice. I walk about 2-3 miles every day. I wish every city was as great as Boston for the non-driving public.

[B Calm]

33. Most days 555 miles, but lately I been driving 630 miles.

I drive an 18 wheeler on a dedicated run to Michigan City, Indiana everyday...

[kestrel91316]

34. Less than 10.

[Gregorian]

35. Average of 2. And I live far from town.

For many years I averaged zero.

I might add, I would average zero now, even far from town, if there were no cars on the road. It's the cars that keep me off my bike.


Edit- And that average of two INCLUDES moving 300 miles. Six trips.


I should have just said 0-1 mile per day.

[Karenina]

36. NONE! ZERO! NADA! ZIP!

And I'm LOVING IT!!! Trains, buses, rollerblades, bicycle, feet (are made for walking).

[uppityperson]

37. Commute under 20 m/d.

Problem with my little electric bicycle is it only goes 15 miles/charge and even at that I have to pedal/walk it up hills.

[area51]

40. 50 on a work day. (n/t)

[RB TexLa]

42. varies from 0 to 200

[LiberalFighter]

43. 3 miles

[blonndee]

44. About 23 miles round-trip 4 days a week, little and sometimes no driving on the weekends,

so I guess I average (generously estimating 20 total miles on weekends)about 16 miles/day. More than I would like, but $$ forced me to live in a different town than where I work. Still, I could easily get by with an electric car, if I could afford the initial outlay.

[kineneb]

45. some days more than others

I am a caregiver, so it depends on whether and where I take Hubby to the doctor's appointment. It is about 10 miles into what passes for "town" here, to where one can find doctors, larger grocery stores, shops, thrift stores,(and the dread MallWart) etc. Our little village has most amenities and the basics are within walking distance.

I try to have a "no-drive" day once a week, if my schedule allows.

[NuttyFluffers]

46. normal day, around 6 to 30 miles

6 if i'm using mass transit, 30 if i'm putting around my local community doing errands. if i'm going to an event, and specifically need my car (perhaps the mass transit doesn't run that late), an average of 80 round trip. but those are special occasions. when i used to do a heavy commute, down into Silicon Valley and back, it averaged around 60 miles -- but hours idle in traffic!

[htuttle]

47. Four!

On a 4-cycle scooter!

[nam78_two]

48. delete

wrong place

[Maddy McCall]

49. Close to 200 miles each day on weekdays.

But I cybercommute a couple days each week (work from home). So it'd probably average out to about 600 to 700 miles each week.

[Nicole]

50. 0-5

5 is the weekly average. I don't drive every day.

[SeattleGirl]

51. 0-2

I work from home, and generally the only time I drive is to go to the store.

[sandnsea]

52. 0-5

On an average day. Up to 150 if seeing clients. The range of an electric car will be excellent for most people. In the north, they already have plug-ins for cars and can plug it in at work to drive it home anyway.

[Omphaloskepsis]

53. I don't drive..

Bike/Skateboard... 10 miles.

[Selatius]

54. On average, less than 3 miles a day, but that's because I'm a college student.

I don't know if I could sustain such a record, given the morphology of many American cities, once I leave college and find a job. American cities are sprawling, designed for cars, not pedestrian traffic. It is difficult to get around many cities without a car, especially if there is no adequate mass transit system.

[Nutmegger]

55. I don't really drive during the week.

I am fortunate enough to have mass transit available to me. My destination is about eight miles one way.

During the weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) usually less than seven.

[rainbow4321]

56. About 5 on my days off

and 15 on workdays (3 days/week)...luckily kid's school/stores/work are all within a 5 mile radius of home.

[Liberal In Texas]

57. For a job...14 to 200.

I'm a contractor anymore and I drive where I have to.

Mostly, though, it's shorter, between 14 and perhaps 18.

I have a smaller SUV, have to for the equipment, and she get about 25 mpg on the road. She's also getting beat up real badly in parking lots and parking garages.

[Duppers]

59. ~70 m

nt

[InvisibleTouch]

60. It varies tremendously.

Some days, not at all. Some days, just to the post office or nearby store, not much more than 5 miles round trip. But a few times a year I'll take a cross-country trip of 20 hours straight, each way, say to dog shows or conventions. There's an average in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to calculate it out. :)

[porphyrian]

61. None. My ex got the car in the divorce. - n/t

[kwolf68]

62. Long way

I am trying to move, but need to sell my house in Front Royal, Va (moving to Warrenton we hope).

Right now I drive about 55 miles one way to work. I recently purchased a Toyota Prius and IT DOES GET the advertised mileage despite what some have said. I typically get anwhere from 48.5 to 52 using I-66 and 28.

[donco6]

63. Maybe 20 miles round trip. eom

[electron_blue]

64. normal day: 2 miles or less. I could use an electric (or none)

[Clark2008]

65. I drive about 40-50, depending upon whether my kid has soccer

practice.

BTW, my knock on the electric car isn't the 100-mile range. It's that it's so small and doesn't appear safe.

In my town, to get anywhere, one must venture on the interstates and both I-40 and I-75 MEET in my city, creating a lot of truck traffic. Driving around in anything smaller than a the larger-type sports cars or a sedan is detrimental to one's health with all the semis on the road.

[paparush]

66. About 80 miles to/from work in my 2003 Corolla at 50.3 MPG

[TwilightGardener]

67. On work days, 100-200 miles.

[kwyjibo]

68. 80 on the days I go to school

maybe 25 on the days I work.

[hootinholler]

69. 95 round trip commute, plus 5-10 more depending on errands

And I'm not going to pull my kids out of this school system to live closer to work.

-Hoot

[Briarius]

70. 80miles on a normal work day

40 each way.