Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have said for ages that a company like U-Haul should rent tow-behind or even overhead gas or even biodiesel engines to power EVs for longer trips.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you ever road tripped with an EV? It’s not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. Stopping once every couple hours for 15 minutes and charging while you pee, eat, etc isn’t bad at all. It’s not like a gas station where you’re supposed to stay at the pump. I can’t imagine towing a trailer just to get around that. Would you tow a trailer full of gasoline to extend the range of a car with a gas engine? Of course not.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This assumes you can find adequate charger coverage, and that the chargers are actually functioning when you get there… Which, if you’re in a Tesla, you’ll probably be fine, but most others is going to be highly dependant on the infrastructure where you’re going, and at least in a lot of the US, that’s not as well built out as it should be.

      That will, however, change, and probably fast once there’s enough people driving EVs

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d say it depends on the EV. The Leaf S can only go 149 miles before needing to recharge. Giving it an engine to help it along is just turning it into a hybrid.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Good point, I wouldn’t recommend road tripping in a Leaf. Still probably easier to just rent a car.

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