The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

Re:The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks by ChancyChance on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:44AM (#35356427)

Do you hear yourself? You are admitting you have to stop for an hour any time you do a long trip, and apologetically claiming you can find something useful to do in that time. What kind of bs propaganda did you swallow? When I’m doing a road trip I don’t want to add one hour minumum per every few hundred miles, assuming I can find a charging station. Range limitations are the second reason why people don’t buy EVs, behind required home infrastructure expenses (a hidden one time tax).

My partner and I both drive cars that are almost 20 years old, so do our parents. Oil changes, tires, and a monthly fill up for $60 or trip fillup of $120 for about 700 miles. That’s it.

Todays EVs are like cell phones from 1985 with styling that appeals to the Pokémon generation.

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Re:The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks by jnsaff2 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:06AM (#35356678)

My fill up for 1100km is less than 10EUR.

The only time I remember charging for 1h was when the charger happened to be a free 50kW charger. Why not.

During road trips it's much more like 15 minutes every 3 hours. Completely enough to keep going until people inside the car can't take it anymore, not a limitation of the car/battery. You make it sound like the stopping part is the hard part not sitting in a car that long.

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Re:The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks by fnordpiglet on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:46AM (#35357214)

I drive for about 300 miles, or five hours, then charge while we stop to stretch, eat, go to the bathroom, and the car has another 300 miles on it, at which point we stop for the night because we’ve been driving for 10 hours. It’s about the least painful experience I’ve ever had. But this is also very much a point in time discussion. I’ll wager in 5 years EV come with enough capacity to drive a full day without break or longer. The reality is that today 5 hours of continuous drive time is plenty of time to warrant a break long enough to recharge to capacity unless you’re big on deep vein thrombosis and drive with a catheter.

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