Australia and California have so much in common with each other. I didn't realize who posted this until after I read it, I assumed it was
@Eunos_Cosmo or somebody else on the west coast.
By that I mean somebody who never leaves their own massive, sprawling city. Just like the cities in Australia. If you ever need to go anywhere, you hop on a plane because you have to, because anywhere else you might want to go would require huffing it for a week like an American pioneer or something.
From a North American perspective, literally nobody in the US who lives between New York City and Los Angeles does what you just described. If the trip is less than 8 hours we don't even consider buying a plane ticket, hell, that's only half a day, we'll be there in time for a late lunch. We drive. Specifically, we load up the family, the bags, and the dog, and drive 400+ miles on a tank of gas - or try to until the wife and daughter have to pee.
190 miles is completely useless for the vast majority of us. 250 ain't great. 287 in the Countryman is slightly closer but it's also a bigger car designed to carry more people and more weight, negating the advantage. And it's gotta be able to do it during a frigid Midwest winter which is just impossible. Starting with 250 miles of range and losing 30%+ of it because the heater is on the entire time is untenable.
These small EVs and cars like them haven't been selling worth a damn and they won't for another 10+ years until batteries can crank out 300 miles during January in Cleveland. Nobody living in the big coastal cities has any idea what its like to deal with that.
