Posted on 10/18/2022 3:26:32 PM PDT by rktman
An electric vehicle (EV) owner who takes road trips between Cheyenne and Casper in Wyoming has revealed that his first trip of 178 miles took a staggering 15 hours to complete in his electric Nissan Leaf.
“It was very difficult. For example, [it took] 15 hours to get from Cheyenne to Casper,” Alan O’Hashi told Cowboy State Daily, adding that this particular trip wasn’t taken in the beginning of the EV era. It was in May 2022.
One month later, O’Hashi was able to complete the road trip in about 11 hours, he said. To put it into perspective, the trip of 178 miles should take less than two and a half hours traveling the speed limit in a gasoline-powered vehicle.
O’Hashi’s experience driving across Wyoming has been such an adventure that the EV owner even wrote a book about the subject, titled, On The Trail: Electric Vehicle Advice and Anxiety.
Charging an EV involves three different levels of chargers that power up different types of EVs at different rates, Cowboy State Daily noted. But none of these charging levels are as fast as filling up a gas-powered car at the pump.
O’Hashi said that on his first trip to Cody, Wyoming, from Colorado in his Nissan Leaf, he used a Level 3 charger at a public charging station in Wellington, Colorado, which can take his small vehicle between 10 to 30 minutes to charge.
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He’s driving a fricking Nissan Leaf. That thing has the range of your average golf cart.
Seems perfect for high school kids, at least when the prices come down to earth.
But at least polar bears come up and hug him.
As the idiot who owns an EV.
So this winter in the Northeast EVs wil become plug and pray.
I wonder how long it would take him in January with battery capacity reduced by cold and electric heat needed to prevent the windows from icing over on the inside.
EVs are such a wonderful idea. I wonder what sort of pink smoke the FR EV fanboys will blow up peoples’ backsides about this if they even show up. “I get a thousand miles out of a charge in my magic EV”. Etc.
EV’s are useful for “around town” trips. Basically the wife gets the EV so she can get to the grocery store, the beauty parlor and the local mall. She can plug it in when she gets home so it’s fully charged for the morning, or the husband can plug it in once he gets home in his SUV and unplug it for her in the morning and store the cable in a safe place.
EVs have vastly different capabilities, just like regular cars. Comparing a Leaf to a Tesla is like comparing a Chevette to a Ferrari.
Heck yeah. Problem solved, just order the heat pump package. Why nobody thinks of these simple solutions I just can’t imagine.
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Well, that’s it then. No more cars in Wyoming.
We’re going back to the horse or wagon!
Just silly that civilization is so far apart in the least populated state. Of all things!
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You mean sort of like a golf cart?
We’ll just get everybody living in big apartment like block cells, er.. house type thingys and we’ll be fine.
And everybody breaks out in a Disney like song and and dance routine.
I want one of those shiny Cybertrucks. I have a reservation but it’s in the 900,000 range so I have time to save up for it.
I remember when my 1964 VW Bug was not operating correctly. Could not get above 40 miles per hour… not great on major Cali freeway…. Even in the slow lane.
“ You mean sort of like a golf cart?”
Absolutely.
My glorified golf cart is great for commuter driving, which is 80% of what I drive.
It will keep my gasoline vehicles in service longer, as short drives are hardest on them.
It’s very comfortable and has torque out the Ying Yang and cheap to drive.
But just as with hammers and screwdrivers, no tool is good for all jobs.
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