News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by thomascgalvin on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:54AM (#27235667)
I very, very rarely drive my car further than a hundred miles in a day; for my day-to-day work, a 200 mile range would be more than comfortable, and I'd be able to recharge to full overnight.

But every once in a while we drive about 200 miles to visit the in-laws, and I would be super nervous about attempting that in an EV. At best we'd be close to empty by the time we arrived, I don't know the state of the charger system on the highways we use, and we'd be stuck using a low-amp charger at their house, which would take forever.

I was 50/50 on buying an EV last year, but decided against it for this reason; I felt like we were still a couple of years away from EVs being practical for all of my use cases. I'm sure we'll get there soon, but right now they aren't a drop-in replacement for everyone's ICE.

Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by ggreer on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#27236646)
With Teslas, you plug in your destination and it provides directions with charging stops. For example: I drove over 600 miles from Portland to Berkeley starting at 25% battery. It routed me to three charging stops[1] and included times for both arrival and how long charging would take.

If you have the navigate on autopilot feature, it automatically drives you from freeway onramp to exit. It's far less mentally taxing than driving manually.

1. https://i.imgur.com/n8QmiPb.jpg

Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by leesec on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:49PM (#27237411)
Tesla's handle this pretty well, it auto routes you to supercharges and tells you how long to charge, etc.
Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by patall on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:36PM (#27236297)
> I don't know the state of the charger system on the highways we use

I totally understand your situation, but sorry, that had me laughing: Yeah sure, there is nothing to be done about that :)