If your road trips are only once in a while, you easily make up for it in saved time not doing weekly fill-ups.
Also the recharge times are still a deal breaker for anyone who fancies a road trip every once in a while.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What, you don’t like spending a quarter of your road trip waiting for “fuel”?
sky@leminal.space 1 year ago
I spent under an hour charging on a 8 hour drive. I barely had time to pee or eat before the car was ready. Have you road-tripped an EV?
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
8 hour drive averaging 50mph(to be conservative and easy math) for 8 hours is 400 miles. What EV can go that far?
sky@leminal.space 1 year ago
there’s a couple EVs that can go that far. I rented a Tesla Model Y Long Range, which cannot. I did not leave with a full charge and didn’t arrive with one either. You don’t need to.
I charged 3 times on the way up the coast, for 15, 10, and 20 minutes. The last one was was only longer because I ran into target to get something.
That’s… 9%.
What car takes an hour to charge?? I used to have a Chevy Bolt, the slowest charging EV you can buy. and it didn’t take an hour.
Go play around with A Better Route Planner if you want to see that assuming 3 hours of charging for an eight hour trip is ridiculous.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, I don’t have 80k to spend on a “maybe I won’t be too worse off”
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My Chevy Bolt cost less than half that, and that was new with most of the bells and whistles. I drove over 200 miles on a single charge yesterday. Longer road trips are doable with a tiny bit of planning and multitasking. When you’re charging, do all the things you do on a road trip anyway: take a leak, grab a snack, give your mind a quick break.
My car is also the 2nd worst major EV for road trips (after the Nissan Leaf). The Volkswagen ID.4, for example, is a little more than half your $80K number and charges about 2-3x faster than the Bolt.
It’s also pretty awesome to not have to go to gas stations as part of your ~weekly routine because you charge at home and it costs next to nothing.