Even off public roads, this is annoying.

Millions of Los Angeles drivers rack up billions of highway miles around LA and 99% of them fail at basic math.

Doesn’t that just qualify as “natural causes” in Florida?

Common sense is underutilized in this country. In order of importance:

The ones who live in Florida have a 98% chance of dying in a violent crime involving marine life.

Isn’t your uncle’s brother also your uncle?

I hope all of these people get beating to death by a lunatic wielding a frozen salmon.

Once this system is in place, you would just buy an EV with no batteries. Then you pay the $7 at the dealer for some used battery when you pick up the car and you will have no stake in the battery health.

The primary advantage is that bad batteries of any age are identified and removed from the pool. It doesn’t matter if your car is brand new if the battery is a dud.

This is the way to go. We just need vehicles to be designed for fast-swap processes, then switch gas stations to battery swap stations.

And maybe drum brakes, if you wanted looking to save a buck or 64 (a “substitution option”...).

Don’t forget, this was the crazy days of racing where you’d have 1000 mile races on public roads.  Being able to stretch the distance between pit stops was a huge advantage.

AC Cobra came with a 427 or 428 and you could get a 42 Gallon tank.

The Renault R5 homologation special had a similar option, except it could get 37mpg if you stayed out of boost. It had a theoretical range of almost 900 miles.

The 911 in at least GT3 trim offers an extended range tank these days. IIRC the Z06 package for the C3 offered the big tank as well and the GS ( if you could get one came with the larger tank or maybe it was 40 gallons ) offered a big tank owing to its racing intentions.

I have a 36 gallon tank on my f-150. It’s purpose is to extend range for towing but it’s side benefit is that it’s awesome for a cannonball road trip. I towed my motorcycle to Grand Junction from Denver and back on a single tank of gas.

The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300sl fuel tank held 34.4 US gallons.

A Ferrari 365GTB4 Daytona has a 33 US gallon tank as standard, and most front engine v12 Ferrari’s of the era have similar sized tanks so this doesn’t seem that surprising to me.

No turbo 4 engine needed!

Did somebody say “Cannonball?”