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That’s not necessarily the case. If you’re saying that because of battery health reasons, infrequent long trips and charging to 100% is not a problem.Also keep in mind, that on long trips you'll be charging up to around 80% at each stop and not 100%. So you're looking at more like 240mi and not 300+. With a max pack your looking at around 320mi at 80%.
If you can wait, the max pack is the way to go, especially if you plan to keep the truck forever and do a lot of long distance travel.
If you’re saying that because of charging curve and it being slower to charge the last 20%, well that’s just a matter of preference and may or may not change your planning.
Also, I wouldn’t worry about degradation being a meaningful impact for at least ten years.
Ultimately, this is a personal question and everyone has a different answer depending on their circumstances. My rule of thumb is to take the total range and multiply by 60%. That’s your everyday range to stay in the healthy band of 20-80%. If you need more miles than that in a day on a fairly regular basis, you need more range.
Then, plan out any other less regular trips you think you’ll take, perhaps 3-4 times or less per year. For that, use the full range (or perhaps 90% to leave breathing room) and then incorporate fast charging infrastructure.
For the “what if I want to” trips, ignore those completely, they shouldn’t be the basis of spending $10k. You can but a hell of a lot of rental days in a gas car for that.
If you live where it gets cold (below 40), then factor in a 20% loss for those months.
For me, I live in Austin and never plan to drive more than 200 miles from home (Dallas) and don’t have to worry about cold and snow (recent events aside). I have 200mi of range now and have only charged away from home once in a year on a trip to Houston. I’m not sure that increasing range 50% to 300 would have materially changed that experience or total travel time.
However, if I lived in CO, I could easily see the need for 400mi range because of all the places that I’d go.
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