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Re:What Happened to EVs? by syntheticnature on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:42AM (#38868302)
Tangent: As someone driving a gas car, I would like to know how your car takes only 2 minutes to refuel. 5 minutes? Certainly, if the station is not getting heavy traffic (which seems to slow the pumps), and on a long trip it's quite likely it will a busy interstate-side station that might get to ten minutes due to slow-flowing gas.

Even so, as we both know, it's unlikely to reach 15 minutes as discussed else-thread, and while I do need breaks on a trip, 15 minutes is about the maximum I want to take unless I'm eating.

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:55AM (#38869306)
Maybe it depends on what you drive? My car takes about 6-7 gallons when empty, but I see tons of other cars taking huge amounts.
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Re:What Happened to EVs? by happyopossum on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:17PM (#38869624)
Maybe it's a North America thing, but I can't think of a (purely ICE) car here that has anything smaller than a ~13 gallon tank... Maybe there are a few with 10-12 gallon ones, but they'd be outliers for sure.

For a typical family-hauler that's be used on road trips like a Honda Odyssey, 16-20 gallons is totally common.

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:32PM (#38869809)
Huh, I'm in the SF bay area with a prius (advertised as a 11.9 gallon tank, but due to one thing or another, it's never more than 7 even when beeping at me to refill. But I do agree that pretty much every time I fill up and look at what the previous car used, it's some crazy high number in comparison.
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