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To: glimmerman70
If you charge the EV at home it takes virtually none of your personal time. You come home, plug it in, and ignore it like you would your gas car while you do the important things in life like eat, make love to your wife, and sleep. The only difference is that when you leave the next morning your EV is fully charged, but a gas car has no more in the thank than it did when you came home the evening before. Eventually the gas car would take some of your time to fill up at the gas station.

Yes, waiting on your gas car to be filled up is only 5 to 10 minutes. But it's 5 to 10 minutes every single time you fill up, even if you use it just for daily commutes and have to fill up only once per twice per week. But that's every week, 52 weeks per year.

Your concern is valid if you have only 1 car, it's an EV, and you're retired and traveling a lot. But if you're young and work too much to travel a lot, driving out of state only once or twice per year, then we're talking about a 40-minute wait to fill up to get 200 miles (using newer EV's that DC fast charge up to 80%) only a few times a year --- a small price to pay to keep from having to stop every week for 10 minutes of your time to wait on a gas car to fill up.

Don't get me wrong. I hate the Dims pushing everyone to go EV like forcing square pegs into round holes not meant for EV's. I just want my fellow Freepers to be armed with accurate facts.

18 posted on 03/09/2022 5:58:08 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

If you get home empty you’re kinda screwed.

If I get home empty I’ve got ten gallons compactly stored and ready to use.

You’re screwed if you have to get 200 miles away quickly.


33 posted on 03/09/2022 6:28:53 PM PST by old-ager
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To: Tell It Right

“Eventually the gas car would take some of your time to fill up at the gas station.”

The horror.


37 posted on 03/09/2022 6:35:49 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Tell It Right

what if you park on the street?


40 posted on 03/09/2022 7:08:23 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Tell It Right

also factor in the increased cost of electricity as they push for more wind and solar

the more EVs sold the more they think their global warming hoax is working

if the green new deal wins we lose


43 posted on 03/09/2022 7:23:03 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Tell It Right

OK, what’s the real skinny on EV batteries catching fire? I really don’t want a rolling bomb in my carport if President Doofus’ policies ultimately compel me to look into getting one of these.


48 posted on 03/09/2022 10:33:57 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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