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To: SkyDancer
I haven't researched how an EV would perform up in the Dakotas or Michigan. As someone who has a day job I have only enough time to research how to optimize things here in Sweet Home Alabama. Surely up there you have a few analytical programmers or engineers who are also conservative (read: don't automatically lie about EV's being awesome) to do the analysis.

As far as people in the southwest "...running the A/C full blast" I promise you we can relate here in the southeast with our 90+ temps and high humidity. That's part of my math on expecting the miles per kWh to be 10% less than the advertised performance, much like buying a gas car. At least, that's what I experience compared to driving in the winter months. (For the record, that's also not getting into a lower performance when loading it with cargo, since I was using numbers for gas truck vs EV truck, not cars. That's a whole 'nuther ball of wax, but I use my truck like that maybe only 1% or 2% of the time without counting throwing grungy but light stuff in the back like a lawnmower or taking out my church's trash. If I toted heavy cargo a lot for long distances I'd be really worried about range per charge.)

76 posted on 11/23/2021 1:32:50 PM PST 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: Tell It Right
Distance plus time to recharge to me are the most important. You drive to see grannie and have to stop to recharge and it takes almost 8 hours now to full charge?

I just flew in to KC and waiting on an incoming flight to take it to Philly.

79 posted on 11/23/2021 1:52:03 PM PST by SkyDancer (Let's Go Brandon!)
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