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To: Red Badger

So, you run low on power, it is not a simple matter of stopping for 5 minutes at a gas station. No, you have to go to a power station and plug in the vehicle for who knows how long just to get it charged enough to go again.

This makes road trips take extremely long. It is doubtful that you could completely charge your car during a meal or rest stop. Goodbye, 600+ mile per day road trips.


36 posted on 08/14/2023 7:44:18 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: exDemMom
This makes road trips take extremely long. It is doubtful that you could completely charge your car during a meal or rest stop. Goodbye, 600+ mile per day road trips.

It depends. Yes, I wouldn't bother with a road trip in the EV pickups because they are horribly inefficient. But my wife I and I have done multiple road trips in our EV car totaling more than 1,200 miles round trip. Our charging stops last 10-15 minutes (unless we're taking longer doing something else anyway, then we'll charge the car to the full 100% which can take 45 minutes because charging past 80% is slower). And even when we drove on trips in an ICE car, my wife always asks to stop every 200 miles to walk around for 10-15 minutes anyway. So having an EV car works for us. But we also have an ICE pickup in part for in case we decide to drive on a really long road trip through parts of the west U.S. that have few fast chargers. The same for if we're silly enough to make a road trip into the northeast in the winter. (The northeast has plenty of fast chargers, but EV's work horrible in the cold. Which isn't a problem for the winter trips we've taken in the southeast since we got the EV.)

51 posted on 08/14/2023 8:12:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: exDemMom

600?

Wimpy!


97 posted on 08/15/2023 5:43:13 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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