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I maintain that for -most- EV owners, max range isn't that important of a metric assuming that you charge at home with a level-2 (240) outlet AND 90% of your travel is local. If so, anything with a useable daily range of 200ish is more that adequate to eliminate any range anxiety. We've had at least one EV in our stable for about 3 years now (2 Bolts and an Ioniq 6) and have NEVER driven more than say 170 miles or so in a single day, and if we ever did, there's enough level-3 chargers around town to top off in any rare instance when we might need a little extra juice (never happened yet).

If extra range was as easy as making a gas tank larger, then sure.. go for it. Since adding an extra 100 miles or so of range is a VERY expensive option (more battery, more weight, larger suspension, brakes, tires, wheels, etc). I am fine with ANY base mode EV that returns 200+ miles (which probably means a spec for 250 assuming loss of range in winter).

A much more meaningful metric is miles/kWh, and I would hope that Ford finds a way to get the Fathom up to 4+ since they're claiming it to be super aerodynamic.

The more important metric for road tripping is level-3 maximum charging power, in kW, as well as the charging curve. Ideally the Fathom will have at least a 150kW level 3 and a decent flat charge curve.

I've said it before, once you own a reasonable-range EV, and you can re-charge every night at home, you find that "size doesn't matter"

100% agree - 200 mile range is more than adequate once EV newcomers overcome range anxiety....