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Re:What Happened to EVs? by LtWorf on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:18AM (#38865311)
NL? Sul serio? A completely flat tiny country?

The much longer stops translate into needing to sleep at a hotel rather than being at your destination. You clearly haven't accounted for that either.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by eecc on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:28AM (#38865390)
NL, hai letto bene. I don’t know what to make of this statement though.

I’ve clearly accounted for everything dude, including my own endurance and that of my family: every couple hours we need to get out, stretch, have a coffee and use the toilet. Plugging a DC 150kW takes 2 minutes, and we were never stuck in a queue waiting for that.

In any case the worse time wasters are roadworks and traffic jams on the German highways and the abysmal wait at the Gotthard Tunnel. If not for them I could easily make it in one day with a Model Y

Re:What Happened to EVs? by natch on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:15AM (#38867221)
> Plugging a DC 150kW takes 2 minutes

More like 2 seconds in a Model Y.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by eecc on Friday January 05, 2024 @01:57AM (#38876508)
Yeah, I have to say I’m dumbfounded by the brilliance of the UX.

all other designs where you have to present a card are simply a failure

Re:What Happened to EVs? by LtWorf on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:13AM (#38867929)
Why not claim that it's completely 0 emissions (on 100% downhill trips) while at it?

You realise that you weren't in a queue because there are very few EVs around I hope?

Re:What Happened to EVs? by natch on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:14AM (#38867205)
Hotels can have electrical outlets. Not to mention chargers which are often faster than electrical outlets. Long trips in huge countries are easy peasy. Charging stops are like 10 minutes every couple hours and sometimes 20 when someone goes in a store for a few minutes. The long charging stops you are thinking of are non-Teslas.
Re:What Happened to EVs? by LtWorf on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:11AM (#38867905)
I like how you completely forgot that a night at a hotel costs you 1 day of vacation, plus the cost for the hotel itself.

Most healthy people don't need toilet breaks every 2h, and you're not accounting for the line at charging spots. 10 minutes * 5 cars isn't a short stop really.

Re:What Happened to EVs? by natch on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:18AM (#38867981)
There are no lines though. And you are making things up. There is no need for a hotel. As an example, a recent long trip I took in a BEV (Tesla) was 1442 km in one day. No hotel needed. How is that a bad thing? Are you going to tell me that is a short distance?