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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by ericmay on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:21AM (#29276446)
If you have a non-Tesla EV you’re really reliant on finding some wall to plug in to. If you are just driving around town, cool you’re good to go and you just go home. If you’re taking a trip for a few hours then you need to charge and that’s where you run into trouble. With Tesla there’s all the Superchargers so that few hour trip is fine with a quick 20 minute charge. For other EVs it’s a few hours at best.

This will be a solved problem in the future though. Just growing pains.

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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by cromka on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:06AM (#29277218)
> For other EVs it’s a few hours at best.

Absolutely not true. This is one of those things Tesla diehards keep repeating as if it was 2015 still. You have commercial super-chargers widely available already that can charge a car 80% in 20 minutes: https://youtu.be/ZgeZikh88Wc?t=776

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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by ericmay on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:10AM (#29277267)
I’ll check that out but as an EV owner over the course of a few years even the Supercharger network isn’t widespread enough. So I’m not ready to buy that there is an alternative that’s as good as that network already. This looks more like the “see you can drive from LA to NYC” road-trip stuff from the early Tesla days.

Things will expand for sure and I’m happy about it, but this looks like marketing to me.

You own and drive an EV I take it? What’s your experience been like?

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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by drewg123 on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:37AM (#29277582)
From that video, I assume you're in the UK.

In the USA, it is still 2015 basically. Everything I've seen on charging non-Tesla EVs in the USA makes it seem like its a total dumpster fire. One of the YT's I watch has experiences like this all the time: https://youtu.be/jGjUQuXozYc?t=862

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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by SyzygistSix on Friday November 19, 2021 @11:06AM (#29278609)
These folks had issues charging their Porsche Taycan on their road trip in 2021. Also it looks like charging on a road trip looks like a Tour de Walmart for the most part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTieOdnDhX8

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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by ericmay on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:14PM (#29279582)
No worse than the Tour de Meijer I've been on with the Supercharging network lol.

At least Meijer has a small bourbon selection so I can try and find a bottle of Buffalo Trace from time to time.

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