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To: ctdonath2

One electric car company needs a $400 220v home converter to charge the battery to 80% in a few hours -I’d buy an electric car when all, and I mean ALL gas stations have charge islands where you could charge up your car in the same amount of time as it takes to fill up a car with fuel and gives your at least 400 miles and won’t run down in the winter when you have to run the heater or AC in the summer. Then too, if your car dies from lack of battery power, an AAA roadside service truck could charge you back up in ten minutes or so enough to get you to a service station. Hopefully the newer cars in the future won’t have to have their batteries swapped out every three years or so to the tune of $3500+


50 posted on 01/19/2018 3:28:49 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Some cities do have a proliferation of chargers. The tech is getting cheaper, and once installed there they are. Easy to put in anywhere. Company & big-retail parking lots tend to have them (not gas stations): pull up, plug in, go do your thing, got a decent charge (if not complete) when you come out.

Again, the car tells you how much range you have remaining, and where the nearby chargers are. I assume newer ones warn you when you’re running out of options (remaining charge vs distance to chargers). You just learn to plan ahead a bit, no biggie; takes some kind of stupid to actually run the battery flat.


54 posted on 01/19/2018 3:36:47 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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