Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ...
by zardo on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:28PM
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Coast to coast is very uncommon. San Diego to Seattle, or New York to Miami would be much more typical of a once per year road trip.
Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ...
by vel0city on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:45PM
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If I were to add a NY-Miami-NY trip once a year to my life, and try and do that in a single shot, that would add ~4 hours of charging time round trip. In reality you wouldn't do that in a single shot (20 hours of driving each way!), you'd probably break it up into two days each way and thus have at least two low charge->100% in there "for free" time-wise. This would cut out an hour or so of charging wait time, so really probably closer to 2ish hours of charge time. On a 40+ hour round-trip drive.
EDIT: This is with a Hyundai Ioniq 5, not my current Mach E. The Mach E doesn't charge as fast as this most recent generation of EVs, so it would be a bit over 4 hours each way in the Mach E. However, if my plans for a car was "go on a yearly road trip", I would have probably bought an Ioniq 5 exactly for this reason. Personally though I'd probably just fly for either of those distances instead of spending 20+ hours in a car each way. Which is why the standard range version of the Mach E is perfectly fine for me.
Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ...
by zardo on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:05PM
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> In reality you wouldn't do that in a single shot (20 hours of driving each way!)
That depends, one person probably isn't doing that in a single shot, but a three people driving in shifts might.
Good thing I do well less than 1 of those on average every year, along with practically every other passenger car in America.
Is driving from San Diego to New York City really a common thing people do here? Is that what the average driver does on a weekly basis? Is that really what we should be targeting our cars to do?