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Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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Have you actually road tripped an EV? You don’t waste “many hours” you spend like 15 minutes every 200 miles charging while you piss and walk your dog.
I more than once have done 600+ miles in a day in the lowest-range Tesla available. It’s just fine.
Here's the duration of my last 5 fast charging stops, pulled from an app that logs everything my car does:
8 minutes 12 minutes 13 minutes 5 minutes 14 minutes
"realistically" i'm having sub-15 minute charge sessions almost every time. Not to mention this goes back a couple months, since I charge at home every night.
If you drive 600km without stopping to piss, maybe a gas car is for you, but I'm not that miserable.
Not sure if you are making stuff up for the sake of it. But how you describe EV is nothing like the real world. Believe it how you want, but I will keep repeating (as an actual experience) that EV is a non-issue in this day and age.
On longer trips (1.000km and more) it will take approx 10% more time. Which is a no brainer.
Yeah ok, but now you are moving the goalposts on the fly. As long ad we are not making stuff up on invalid assumptions that’s fine. I’m not saying everybody needs to buy an EV. Just if people are using the argument that it is not user friendly to not get one, that’s false.
I can’t afford a ferrari either, doesn’t mean it’s a bad car.
Ps. As mentioned 6 times or so already, i am talking about the EU (said so from the start)
It's also five different trips? Where I stopped for less than 15 minutes each trip?
I don't know how to get you to understand that basically no one is spending hours at charging stations. I live in the midwestern US (a notably poor part of the country for EV infrastructure) and my only vehicle is an EV.
You don’t spend 5. You spend at least 10 minutes, where charging takes 15-20.
Ok, but there are always exceptions. You can’t use those as an argument. There are also some regions where it takes hours to stand in line for gas. Doesn’t mean that is the average and that I should go around teling people it is.
EV charging in EU (!) is on average (!!) almost identical to gas cars currently especially the newer models with 300KWh charging capabilities. I think it will take you less time to charge those than gas even.
Respect your personal choice. As long as it’s not discussed as “EV is only good for city trips”. I understand your personal situation and preference, but the facts are that that is an outdated view for many situations.
I’ll just bluntly keep repeating myself just like you are repeating yourself (even after being presented with experiences talking about the opposite) -> EV is not for city purposes only.
Me (and others) are trying to explain to you that your personal “experience” is not grounds to make statements like you are making (e.g. EVs are only for small trips). The fact that you choose to ignore all that and focus only on your own (limited) experience is not my fault.
Limiting it to “in my area” it would be absolutely fine and right, but you are incorrectly telling people like it is not ready for prime time yet everywhere, when it clearly is.
So if you let that go, there would be no need to keep repeating yourself ;) but you keep opening a can of worms if each reply contains a blanket statement.
I’ll let it go, sorry for hammering on about it.
Omg dude, this is just getting silly. Good luck m8.