Posted on 10/18/2022 12:26:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
“15 hours to drive 178 miles”
If my math is right that averages like 12 mph......I know guys that could have gotten there as fast of faster on their bicycles.
50 mile range.
Recharge.
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“While waiting to charge....”
It must have been a day with a strong headwind!!
Heard the have the same problem with the EV pick-ups. You tow a boat to a lake, better bring a generator too, to charge up for the trip home.
I have a friend who owns a Leaf and only uses it for in-town.
Still he is constantly thinking distance and charge.
I saw on Youtube 2 guys driving a fully charged electric F-150 and a Humvee with matching trailers in Colorado. I think the round trip was 176 miles. One had to get a recharge on the way back and it took 36 mins at .26 cents a kw for a partial charge while the other guy in the Humvee did not as he thought he could make it as he had 10% charge left in his bigger battery pack. He manged but had only 8% left. I noticed he had his window partially down so no a/c used.
They had a backup gas Tacoma pickup truck which only used 1/4 tank of gas. The driver said he could make the trip 3 more times before getting gas. At 5 minutes....
The Humvee was about $115,000 !!
Obviously, this means the US Government needs to cut HUGE checks to lots of kickback contractors who will build millions of charging stations all over the United States, just like they did to create gas statio...UH...ER...never mind.
If you can’t drive very far in your government-decreed EV, you can always start supporting the amazing, low-priced (if you forget that you are being taxed out the whazoo to pay the builders), slow-moving (hasn’t even been started yet - probably won’t be started by the time you MUST buy an EV), “bullet train” to the far reaches of that wonderful State!
Family member has a Tesla X and loves it. After five years the replacement new one is on order and will arrive next month.
That family drove 770 miles with it to visit and again to go home. No problems outside a tire problem.
Two day drive with kids. Stopped adjacent to Super-chargers to eat lunch each day and then near one for the overnight motel.
Model 3 does eat tires if you let the pressure get low as they run at almost 50 psi.
These are expensive but they can afford it and it is what they like. This was on a major east coast travel corridor and there are hundreds of similar trips where it would not be a practical and they would take their other SUV.
I drove across Kansas one time, at night.
I fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in Denver.................
You have to dispose of the car every 10 yrs once the battery is dead.
Deep State doesn’t care.
Agreed.
EV driving range should be measured by the number of golf courses the vehicle can get through without needing a charge.
Yes, but they get great elapsed times at the drag strip in the quarter mile./s
I’d buy an EV...but they’ll have to be more convenient AND safer (fire-wise)....not to mention, cheaper.
Well d’uh. In CA if you have to go a long way you can hop on the bullet train. Oh... I see....
The drive from Kansas City to Denver is boring as hell during the day. Absolute misery at night. I made that run many times at night and rarely saw another vehicle on the road.
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