Sharp acceleration is interesting, but I'd like to believe we don't need that except for emergency escape maneuvers. (Unless we're trying to build the equivalent of top-fuel dragsters in electrics for racing.)
The long-distance one is more interesting to me, even though it's at low speeds, because I'd like to believe that most of the driving that people do is in-town and at speeds pretty close to that 26 MPH. If there's a long-term battery that you can use for those kinds of driving and then only needing to charge up a small battery, that could take a lot of possible gas cars off the road by producing an affordable long-range errands-and-commuting kind of car. (Admittedly, where I am, there's a lot of people who can't live anywhere near their workplace, so that's no help, but for places where that is possible, that would be pretty good to do.)
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The long-distance one is more interesting to me, even though it's at low speeds, because I'd like to believe that most of the driving that people do is in-town and at speeds pretty close to that 26 MPH. If there's a long-term battery that you can use for those kinds of driving and then only needing to charge up a small battery, that could take a lot of possible gas cars off the road by producing an affordable long-range errands-and-commuting kind of car. (Admittedly, where I am, there's a lot of people who can't live anywhere near their workplace, so that's no help, but for places where that is possible, that would be pretty good to do.)