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Electric Nightmare: EV Owner Details 15-Hour Trek to Travel 178 Miles
breitbart.com ^ | 10/18/2022 | Alana Mastrangelo

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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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; ev; wyoming; zoomzoom
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To: rktman

He’s driving a fricking Nissan Leaf. That thing has the range of your average golf cart.


21 posted on 10/18/2022 5:08:10 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino

Seems perfect for high school kids, at least when the prices come down to earth.


22 posted on 10/18/2022 5:09:42 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: dinodino

But at least polar bears come up and hug him.


23 posted on 10/18/2022 5:11:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nascarnation
But now he’s “famous” on the internet.

As the idiot who owns an EV.

24 posted on 10/18/2022 5:13:43 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: dontreadthis

So this winter in the Northeast EVs wil become plug and pray.


25 posted on 10/18/2022 5:18:07 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: rktman

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.


26 posted on 10/18/2022 5:51:20 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: rktman

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.


27 posted on 10/18/2022 5:54:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,304,136 active user on Truth Social)
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To: SamAdams76

EVs have vastly different capabilities, just like regular cars. Comparing a Leaf to a Tesla is like comparing a Chevette to a Ferrari.


28 posted on 10/18/2022 5:59:00 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: nascarnation

Heck yeah. Problem solved, just order the heat pump package. Why nobody thinks of these simple solutions I just can’t imagine.

/s


29 posted on 10/18/2022 8:22:10 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: POWG

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!

/s


30 posted on 10/18/2022 8:24:00 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: jdsteel

You mean sort of like a golf cart?


31 posted on 10/18/2022 8:25:05 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: rktman
EVs are the equivalent of square wheels.
32 posted on 10/18/2022 11:42:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Sequoyah101

We’ll just get everybody living in big apartment like block cells, er.. house type thingys and we’ll be fine.


33 posted on 10/18/2022 11:45:49 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: dfwgator

And everybody breaks out in a Disney like song and and dance routine.


34 posted on 10/18/2022 11:46:51 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: nascarnation

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.


35 posted on 10/18/2022 11:50:12 PM PDT by POWG
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To: rktman

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.


36 posted on 10/19/2022 12:04:14 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: Sequoyah101

“ 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.


37 posted on 10/19/2022 6:58:54 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters: it’s Oz or Fetterman. Deal with it and vote accordingly.)
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