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To: Tell It Right

The buses appear to be made by Blue Bird with an ideal range of either 120 miles or 150 miles.


25 posted on 12/23/2025 12:58:44 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X
My wife and I do most of our driving. Admittedly, we live in the south (Alabama) and part of my math and research on getting an EV was based on not doing long trips up north in the cold. (If we ever decide to do so we can take the gas pickup.)

During the rare cold snaps in which the high here is in the teens, I've tested our EV. So-called "fast" charging is way slow (a normal 10-15 minute charge took over 45 minutes). Not a problem for daily driving because home charging handles daily driving anyway; I just wanted to test what long trip charging would be like in bitter cold. And instead of getting 3.9 miles/kWh on average I got about 2.8 miles/kWh (normal local speed driving). So there are some real issues with charging speed and range in bitter cold. But, again, those are for long trips and not local daily driving.

27 posted on 12/23/2025 1:15:46 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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