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Re:The US Refuses to Fall in Love with Electric Cars by treesknees on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:01PM (#30062266)
I just tried that site and set it to "fewest stops", it dropped from 4 to 3 charges for a Tesla model 3, and reduced charging time to a little bit over an hour. That's not as bad as Tesla's planning site was showing me.

I also tried adjusting the car type to a Ford Mach-e, and I only have to stop twice as long as I drive a 5-hour stretch at 55 MPH max. The speed limit on this stretch is 75 MPH.

I do understand that different vehicles have different functionality and targeted use-cases. In this case, I'm not pulling a boat or a trailer. I'm "just driving" which is a pretty standard thing to want to do in a car. My point still stands, if I need to spend $160k to drive 500 miles in an electric vehicle, I'd rather go buy a $40k ICE vehicle that can do it with fewer stops.

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Re:The US Refuses to Fall in Love with Electric Cars by tracker1 on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:32PM (#30062719)
The bigger thing to me is the time for the stops. I can generally fill up, go to the restroom and grab a meal in well under 20m with ICE. Depending on the trip, I'd have to sit for another half hour or more.

My last Vegas trip, one of the stops near a charging center had several cars waiting for chargers. I don't think I'd enjoy that at all.

I've thought about an EV for local commuting, but the costs just don't seem worth it. Let alone even less ability for independent repair or maintaining. And dropping $15-20k every few years on a new set of batteries is definitely less than appealing.

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