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Re:What Happened to EVs? by volkk on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:44AM (#38868339)
this isn't quite accurate. fast charging isn't available everywhere. did a road trip within california a few years ago and our model 3 ruined our trip on the drive from yosemite to sequoia national park. fast chargers became non existant to the point where we had to stop for 2 hours to wait for some low charge place to get us to 40% so we could make it to the next fast charging place.

i'm sure happy path traveling is great, but it becomes stressful as hell very quickly

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by LargeWu on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:58AM (#38868539)
Right. It's the situation where if everything goes well it's wonderful, but if not it's hell. Until level-3 chargers are available every 25 miles EV's aren't viable for long-distance travel.

"I did a long trip no problem", you say.

Would that have been as pleasant if 10x the number of electric cars were on the road? If you had to wait 45 minutes for a charger to become available due to demand? I doubt it. I have an EV (not a Tesla, one on the CHAdeMO standard) and I love, love, love it for driving around the city, but I don't dare take it on longer trips. Even doing a lot of driving in a single day is dicey in the winter.

Until the charging network is as ubiquitous and reliable as gasoline pumps, EV's will remain a niche.

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by shagie on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:21AM (#38868827)
"Next gas {100+} miles" is a reminder for some cars to fill up their tank... and a significant obstacle for many EVs.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=5335.0

(I once paid close to $10 USD / gallon (after converting from cpl) diving from Banff to Jasper at a station that had 4 pumps and on that day, a 10 minute wait to get to one of the pumps)

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by jcranmer on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:59AM (#38869354)
Random off-topic comment, but I like this quote in that thread:

> the road, at the beginning, should be signed with "speed limit enforced by unmarked frost heaves".

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Re:What Happened to EVs? by frumper on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:15AM (#38868758)
Maybe you did this many years ago, but looking at that route there are superchargers dotted all along that route.
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