Posted on 10/18/2022 12:26:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Colorado electric vehicle owner called a road trip across the state of Wyoming “very difficult” after it took 15 hours to drive 178 miles.
Alan O’Hashi used to live in Wyoming and explained that a trip back to the Cowboy State in his electric Nissan Leaf required lots of patience.
“It was very difficult, O’Hashi told the Cowboy State Daily. “For example, [it took] 15 hours to get from Cheyenne to Casper.”
The distance between Cheyenne and Casper is 178 miles, which with the speed limit taken into account should take less than 2 1/2 hours.
“What I’ve learned from driving this thing is patience,” O’Hashi said.
Since that first attempt, O’Hashi has made the trip again but was only able to cut the total travel time down to 11 hours. While waiting to charge, he noted that he often spends extra money shopping or eating, in addition to the charging cost.
O’Hashi added that the unpredictability of a battery’s range causes anxiety because electric vehicle owners must factor in extra distances to charging stations, along with hilly terrain and winds that negatively impact battery range.
His experiences inspired him to write a book, On the Trail: Electric Vehicle Advice and Anxiety.
Wyoming may be the dumbest place in the US to try long distance EV travel, outside of Alaska.
I think you just freeze to death, and the world celebrates the loss of another idiotic virtue signaller.
Well first off there’s like nothing on I-80 for miles and miles. It’s 180 miles from Little America to Rawlins with next to nothing in between. Wyoming is very sparsely populated with lots of mountains in the north. Not a lot of places to have charging stations. Not to mention hoe depressing it is to spend hours in Rawlins. Lol.
Agreed. I grew up in Wyoming. There are lots of places it’s 100 miles to the next town. You have to carefully plan your stops in any vehicle. You really don’t want to get stranded in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming.
The Green fascists are a godsend for the American Psychological Association and psychologists in general as they manufacture brand new anxieties to stress humankind. Range anxiety will now be added to penis envy as the newest neuroses to drive new patients to the psychologists couch.lol
Strap a genny on the roof. Forestgump would have made it in better time.
Here's a much more elegant way to do it
“patience” isn’t the word I would think of...
The newer ones are better but they are still very short ranged.
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