I've driven exclusively electric cars at home for the last three years. While they certainly make me happier on a day-to-day basis, longer trips are much more stressful.
I look forward to the day of common 1000 volt architectures and megawatt charging.
Plugin hybrid is great for road trips. Ev only standard days and had for road trips
That said the latest Gen with 80% charging in like 10 minutes is crazy good. Once there are more chargers like that sounds it will make ev only just as quick as gas fill up
I managed to hit some v4 superchargers on my most recent trip, and 20 minutes from 14-78% was refreshing.
I take a 6 hour trip twice a month with my EV. It really isn't bad because I know where to stop. But the first few times was stressful just because there isn't the abundance of chargers.
But also there were two times I've had to wait for a charger and that really sucka.
I will say, for me, charging speeds are fast enough. Make everything 150+ kw and more of them at each location, and I think thats good enough for 90% of road trips.
gas cars: what companies push on us to suck in our gas and repair money
EVs: what customers really need to go from A to B.
EV owner. Can confirm.
I betcha that EV drivers pass by gas stations nearly every time they go on a drive, reminding them of the costs they no longer have to pay to keep their car moving.
Around me avast majority of the chargers are at Sheetz. So you go from getting gas at Sheetz. To charging your car there. Same business and location.
I wouldn't recommend an EV to anyone that can't charge at home. Unfortunately, that excludes most people in apartments.
I can't charge at home and it's fine. Fifty minutes at a public charger twice a month isn't that much of an inconvenience.
Do you not have electric outlets at home?
It's not even the cost, it's never having to divert from my commute to put fuel in the car because I've been putting it off for a week and now it's both critical and more inconvenient than ever.
And the smell.
That's actually the one thing I kinda miss. I always liked the smell of a mechanic's garage, and it made me feel more like a mechanic because my garage had that smell.
I just learnt this in the last few months.
We got a Rav4 Prime and I had only put gas in it for the first time for our normal drive two weeks ago.
What a pain in the ass and it was only a few minutes for the detour.
At the start, then they stop looking at the signs unless the gas prices have been in the news recently.
I’m on vacation and rented a plug in hybrid. It’s been 4 days and my brain is still not quite grasping that I need to press the brake pedal to make it slow down.
Regenerative braking has to be the best innovation in driving in decades.
Public charging is still annoying as hell, though.
The first year is great. Then it becomes the new normal and driving ICEs is only possible with physical discomfort.
What do you think will happen to all the gas stations when the ICE vehicles go away?
They just become convenience stores, which is all they are anyway.
The problem is the gas is what brings people into the convenience stores.
We'd need far fewer of them. Many will transition to also providing charging stations, then, as these can be placed pretty much everywhere without any complicated infrastructure (huge underground gas reservoirs), parking buildings will provide charging services.
99.999% of commuters can do so with a single over night charge. Many will be able to charge their cars at home.
Didn't answer my question.
How so?
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