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I Rented An Electric Car For A Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.
vigourtimes ^ | June 4, 2022 | Colin Mcatee

Posted on 06/05/2022 8:19:50 AM PDT by American Number 181269513

I thought it would be fun.

That’s what I told my friend Mack when I asked her to drive with me from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car.

I’d made long road trips before, surviving popped tires, blown headlights and shredded wheel-well liners in my 2008 Volkswagen Jetta. I figured driving the brand-new Kia EV6 I’d rented would be a piece of cake.

If, that is, the public-charging infrastructure cooperated. We wouldn’t be the first to test it. Sales of pure and hybrid plug-ins doubled in the U.S. last year to 656,866—over 4% of the total market, according to database EV-volumes. More than half of car buyers say they want their next car to be an EV, according to recent Ernst & Young Global Ltd. data.

By the Numbers

Our reporter’s four-day, three-night EV road trip included many charging stops, little sleep—and less junk food than you might expect

Miles driven: 2,013

Number of charges: 14

Total charging cost: $175

Hours spent waiting to charge:18

Hours of sleep:16

Calories of junk food consumed (estimated): 1,465

Giant chicken statues passed: 1

Oh—and we aimed to make the 2,000-mile trip in just under four days so Mack could make her Thursday-afternoon shift as a restaurant server.

Less money, more time

Given our battery range of up to 310 miles, I plotted a meticulous route, splitting our days into four chunks of roughly 7½-hours each. We’d need to charge once or twice each day and plug in near our hotel overnight.

The PlugShare app—a user-generated map of public chargers—showed thousands of charging options between New Orleans and Chicago. But most were classified as Level 2, requiring around 8 hours for a full charge.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Travel
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To: buckalfa
All of the analysis in this thread assumes the Regime doesn't succeed in turning the country into a third world violent dystopia of a mostly oppressed, hungry and poor population endlessly pitted against each other.
61 posted on 06/05/2022 9:35:28 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: American Number 181269513

He lost sleep over having to remember to charge the car all the time.


62 posted on 06/05/2022 9:38:51 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: American Number 181269513

I won’t buy anything green because it supports Commies and is subsidized by tax payers. There are plenty of other reasons not to buy.


63 posted on 06/05/2022 9:39:00 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: American Number 181269513

Folks,

The technology is appropriate for some people and some situations. Long trips it is obviously not good for unless your trip is leisurely with lots of naps.

We used to teach application of appropriate technology, now it is one size fits all. That is the nature of socialism and communism and fascism.


64 posted on 06/05/2022 9:41:10 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I was wondering about that northbound routing, too. Without consulting Mapquest or Google Maps, going thru Birmingham AL from NOLA to get to Chicago would not have been the first route in my mind, never mind the EV factor.


65 posted on 06/05/2022 9:41:20 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: JD_UTDallas

you are wasting your time here with facts on FR. The folks here who are anti-EV think it’s a political thing (regardless of Musk’s recent political stances).

I am right of Ronald Regan, and I think let the market sort it out.

If an EV is better, faster, cheaper, it will win.....I have a cybertruck on order, just because it is better, faster, cheaper.


66 posted on 06/05/2022 9:41:27 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: JD_UTDallas

When I was a kid, the prediction was a flying car in every garage.

Now as a very old retired pilot I can see how silly the idea was.

Silly as it was/is, there are still people trying to make it work.

I am not going to list the reasons why it is silly because there are literally hundreds of reasons and I don’t feel like making the effort for those who will never listen.


67 posted on 06/05/2022 9:43:11 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: dinodino

I’m very curious, how much do they charge you to charge up at these super charger stations? Thank you.


68 posted on 06/05/2022 9:45:10 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: exPBRrat

that works

once everyone has a digital passport you will not be allowed out of your local area without permission anyway


69 posted on 06/05/2022 9:52:53 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: GOPJ
What about the thousands of dollars it cost to replace the battery after 8 years?

I've never had a car longer than 8 years.

70 posted on 06/05/2022 9:52:56 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,195,621 active users on Truth Social)
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To: American Number 181269513

EV cars and trucks do not make sense with our current electrical grid.

We have brownouts now during summer, can you imagine what it would be like if even 25% of the cars were EV’s.

No thanks.


71 posted on 06/05/2022 9:56:33 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: BereanBrain
you are wasting your time here with facts on FR. The folks here who are anti-EV think it’s a political thing (regardless of Musk’s recent political stances).

Very true. The anti-EV club on FR are really no different than the "Orange Man Bad" people on the Leftist sites. No matter how many achievements you point out during the Trump presidency, they close their ears and eyes and bleat "Orange Man Bad, Orange Man Bad, Orange Man Bad..."

Throwing facts at them is a waste of time. Their little minds are already made up and there's no changing them.

Reminds me of the mid 2000s when the iPhone came out. People were laughing at it and saying that nobody wanted a "computer" on a phone and that the good old flip phones were all one needed and here to stay.

72 posted on 06/05/2022 9:59:14 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,195,621 active users on Truth Social)
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To: bohica1

It depends on location, idle fees, etc. It could be anywhere from free to $20, depending on a number of factors.


73 posted on 06/05/2022 9:59:47 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: American Number 181269513

they promise the jetsons

we get the flintstones

now you know why they have been building all those bike lanes

pedal power to the people!


74 posted on 06/05/2022 10:00:21 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: EVO X
...if the next owner knows YOU drove the car for five years - and in three years he’ll have to shell out $12,000 for a new car battery.

My position was after 8 years - that's the three years the first owner drove - and the 5 years by the person who bought the car 'used'... It's not unusual for a battery to need replaying after 8 years.

75 posted on 06/05/2022 10:05:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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To: McGavin999

An important point you touch on.

We are already well on the way to becoming a banana republic. Don’t kid yourselves. It is almost a done deal.

Banana republics all have certain mutual characteristics and one of the major is poor and unreliable utilities and infrastructure.

Many states are already in trouble with both. It is folly to think that socialists who have no idea what made this country the prosperous country it is today will manage the power grid and the infrastructure any better than those who created the many nation failures of the past and the present.

One can always find five gallons of gas somewhere near by, even if the only way is your Brooklyn credit card. But what to do when the entire power grid craps out as it has in large areas several times recently?

that blinding quick Tesla will be a dead horse.

I am a fan of Elon Musk and the Tesla is a remarkable feat of engineering, but it is like the Ferrari, the high end of the Porsche, not the car for every one.


76 posted on 06/05/2022 10:09:11 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: TexasGator
How much does it cost to replace Tesla battery?

Ideally, the most basic battery replacement in tesla costs between $13,000 and $14,000. Replacing a Tesla battery in a Model S premium sedan can cost around $13,000-$20,000. Replacing the battery in the Model 3 entry-level sedan and Model X premium SUV can cost at least $13,000 and $14,000, respectively.

Google How long do batteries in electric cars last?

The battery on an electric car is a proven technology that will last for many years. In fact, EV manufacturers guarantee it. Nissan warrants that its electric car batteries will last eight years or 100,000 miles, for example and Tesla offers a similar guarantee.

77 posted on 06/05/2022 10:12:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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To: American Number 181269513

EVs not even close to ready for prime time cross country ... fascinating trip report sounds like a modern lewis & clark adventure ...


78 posted on 06/05/2022 10:16:14 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: JD_UTDallas
How much does it cost to replace Tesla battery?

Ideally, the most basic battery replacement in tesla costs between $13,000 and $14,000. Replacing a Tesla battery in a Model S premium sedan can cost around $13,000-$20,000. Replacing the battery in the Model 3 entry-level sedan and Model X premium SUV can cost at least $13,000 and $14,000, respectively.

Googled How long do batteries in electric cars last?

The battery on an electric car is a proven technology that will last for many years. In fact, EV manufacturers guarantee it. Nissan warrants that its electric car batteries will last eight years or 100,000 miles, for example and Tesla offers a similar guarantee.

79 posted on 06/05/2022 10:16:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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To: American Number 181269513
A few more facts:

How much does it cost to replace Tesla battery?

Ideally, the most basic battery replacement in tesla costs between $13,000 and $14,000. Replacing a Tesla battery in a Model S premium sedan can cost around $13,000-$20,000. Replacing the battery in the Model 3 entry-level sedan and Model X premium SUV can cost at least $13,000 and $14,000, respectively.

Googled How long do batteries in electric cars last?

The battery on an electric car is a proven technology that will last for many years. In fact, EV manufacturers guarantee it. Nissan warrants that its electric car batteries will last eight years or 100,000 miles, for example and Tesla offers a similar guarantee.

80 posted on 06/05/2022 10:18:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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