Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly

Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by davidgould on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:14PM (#17898681)

I'm in the East Bay, so don't really need AC and have gas heat so the EV plan works for me. What part of PG&E service area do you live in?

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by gnicholas on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:40PM (#17899084)

I'm on the peninsula. This summer has been very mild so we've gotten off easy, but I certainly can't count on that most years. Since you can't switch plans frequently, I didn't want to take the risk of switching.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by davidgould on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:08PM (#17899363)

How much use do you get out of the pure electric range on the C-MAX? I have a Chevy Spark EV and can make almost all trips I need. My longest is Oakland to San Jose and back. It has only 18kWh battery, but in warm weather we see 4.8 avg miles per kWh.

Perhaps solar would help solve your daytime rate problem? Or a car with more battery?

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by gnicholas on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:28AM (#17900321)

Wife's commute is 15 miles roundtrip, so we get good use out of it. Just wish it took less kWh in to get the same number of miles out.

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