Posted on 02/15/2023 1:35:02 AM PST by Libloather
Taking an electric car on a road trip can be a stressful experience - at least according to a couple who took their Kia EV6 on a cross-country trip from Michigan to Florida.
Axios reporter Joann Muller said her husband took the electric car on a 1,500 mile road trip - she joined him part-way through - to see if the US is truly ready for mass EV adoption. While electric cars are becoming more prevalent, charging infrastructure isn't quite what it should be, Muller wrote.
"We were constantly thinking about where to charge next," Muller wrote of her experience during the trip. "It occupied our minds more than where to eat or spend the night."
They stopped 12 times to recharge the car, which has an estimated battery range of 274 miles, over the course of the 1,500 mile, four-day journey, and that charging times were between 20 to 55 minutes.
The reporter said that while they were never afraid of getting stranded, the trip took a lot more planning than it would have with a traditional combustion-engine vehicle. The couple had to juggle "route-planning apps and billing accounts with various charging companies, which can get confusing," as well as dealing with "glitchy" chargers.
Muller said her husband drove the car alone from Detroit to Washington DC, where they met up to head to Florida. During his solo portion of the trip, he said he was so "anxious" about the drain cold temperatures would have on the battery that he didn't use the cabin heat, choosing instead to rely on the heated steering wheel and seats.
While EV range continues to improve, charging infrastructure still poses a major hurdle for electric-vehicle adoption.
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For many people, EV’s will simply be impractical for much of anything except for maybe local secondary commuting.
The ability of people to move around is what makes government anxious.
EVs nor is the country ready for prime time. Whenever government tries to force market and economic forces to go its way, its always a failure and chaos.
Perfectly suited for Dems, dinks and woke greenies, especially CA dwellers, who work from home, don’t need AC or heat, only go out for mid-morning lattes and never travel more than 50 miles from home. To the rest of us, those who understand the real environmental and economic cost of lithium, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, no thanks.
That’s the ONLY problem with EVs and it was the ONLY problem with LEDs; governments interfering with markets.
Perhaps our overlords don’t like seeing us driving all over North America, so they force us to drive short-range vehicles.
Yes, the EV experience is what will kill it.
My late mother-in-law lived in a large retirement community with its own supermarket and shops on one end. Many had golf carts that they would use to get around in.
That’s the current state of EV’s. They are for making short trips around the neighborhood, coming home to recharge.
rely on the heated steering wheel and seats.
Gee, I wonder how those were heated?
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It takes a special kind of stupid to think you can take a 1500 mile trip in a car that needs recharged every 200-250 miles. Then add recharge time. Anyone notice that the cost of each recharge wasn’t mentioned. How much is a “fill-up”?
Where’s all the electrical juice going to come from for a majority EV society? Oh, let’s add in electric stoves and HVAC. It’s not, they’re pushing us to a ration society they control. Total serfdom.
My wife and I made that trip once, traveling from Carson City to Ely - 320 miles. Once you leave Fallon, there are only 2 towns for the 250 mile remainder, Austin and Eureka.
They tell you to make damn sure your car's tank is full before taking the trek. Trying it with an EV? No thanks.
a cross-country trip from Michigan to Florida.
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Michigan to Florida is not cross country (after all it is all down hill ;-)
San Francisco to New York would be cross country. Going over the Sierra Nevada Mountain range (in the winter) would be a real test (just don’t stop at Donner Pass).
I fail to see any advantage to owning an electric car other than it being a virtue signal for leftards.
San Francisco to New York would be cross country. Going over the Sierra Nevada Mountain range (in the winter) would be a real test (just don’t stop at Donner Pass).
When my daughter was discharged from the Army, I helped her with half a cross-country trip, from Fort Riley in Kansas to Escondido California.
I see the future ad campaign.... “you meet the nicest people at a super charger location”.
I like to turn travel into an adventure, to make it exciting, seeking out adverse weather and preferring to sleep in snowy, wintery mountain passes, or getting off onto a remote road like that.
Electric cars just aren’t made for adversity or adventuring, or as a safe car for the wife and kids.
Evs are the blood diamonds of the car world.
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