Re:What it’s like to own an electric car
by WorldMaker on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:30PM
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If you will excuse answering an anecdote with another anecdote: I had a really cool conversation once with someone that does roadside assistance in rural Idaho/Montana. They were telling me about a guy that had them on speed dial because he loved his Tesla and his favorite drive to visit friends and family he drove two or three times a year obviously didn't have enough superchargers along the way. This guy decided it was cheaper to pay for a tow at the end of the range of his car to the next nearest charge spot than to reroute. He was doing it often enough that he would often call ahead by a week or two and the tow truck would just be there waiting in his usual spot. He was doing it often enough that the roadside assistance folks were even looking into ways to do some sort of mobile charging for the guy as just another assistance service they could provide not just to that particular Tesla owner but maybe even for other future users, as that would presumably be a growing mini-industry in rural Idaho/Montana.
There are stories if you look for them of the same sorts of "early adopters" needing tows between gas stations in those same exact areas. It isn't a "new" phenomenon with electric cars, and there are all sorts of industry solutions if we work together to solve such things.
There are stories if you look for them of the same sorts of "early adopters" needing tows between gas stations in those same exact areas. It isn't a "new" phenomenon with electric cars, and there are all sorts of industry solutions if we work together to solve such things.