Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles
Reygle@lemmy.world 22 hours agoSo- genuine question here, not baiting. So assuming your 4G/etc (telemetry soaked) connection is working, how often would you wind up stopping to charge “up another X percent” along the way? It sounds like it would be having you stop more often than every few hundred miles?
The home charging scenario is great, near perfect experience FOR SURE, but there are cases where it’s not possible, like renters.
ebc@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I kinda doubt the genuineness of the question given the comment about telemetry… I’ll be the first to admit that these things are a privacy nightmare, but that’s a problem with ALL modern cars, not just EVs. It just so happens that most EVs are modern cars, but they’re not necessarily worse than your random off-the-shelf 2026 Nissan Rogue.
Still, genuine answer: Haven’t done that many roadtrips where I’ve needed to charge more than once, actually. But my car can easily leave now and go 2-3 hours at highway speed without stopping. Make that 3-4 hours if I set it to charge at 100% the night before (in case of a planned roadtrip), as I usually only charge it to 80% to preserve battery life. Not sure how many miles that is as I’m to lazy to do the conversion, but this is why I use “hours at highway speed” as a metric.
A good resource to look at the various scenarios specific to your situation / area would be ABRP.
Reygle@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I drive a 2024 and it has absolutely no internet connection what-so-ever. I’m glad it works for you. I rent and so do most of my friends, so from my point of view it’s completely unattainable.
ebc@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
For sure, we need to get landlords to install EV chargers in all parkings too. We’ll probably need legislation for this.