Electric - Which - Not Tesla

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You want an electric car. But not a Tesla. You want to know what a Chevy Bolt’s range is so instead of going to their website you ask DCUM. Something is wrong with you.

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Anonymous wrote:lol people are talking about derechos and the coming apocalypse and whether ice or electric is better. The reality is much more basic - if I drive to Virginia Beach on most electrics I have to stress the whole time about deviating from my path to find a charging station, pray there isn't a big line, and best case scenario sit there for 30-45 minutes. I also have to do this on the way back. A 3.5 hour trip becomes a 4.5 hour trip plus a bunch of additional worry. No thanks. Someday electric technology will be "ready" and that day is when cars can charge in 10 minutes or less and go 300-400 miles AND not be crappily made and boring (looking at you Tesla). That day is not here yet, but when it comes I will gladly buy one

There are no less than 10 supercharger stations on the way from DC to VA Beach. Why do you have to stress when driving one of your hypothetical 'most electrics'?

+1 that post cracked me up. It's not like that at all.

The additional worry is the WAITING for the car to charge up. I hear all these ridiculous Tesla owners being like "Well we just plan to stop and eat lunch while our car charges." That's great for you but some of us don't like pissing away an additional hour on a 3 hour trip with roadside junk food.

How many three-hour road trips do you take in a year? Don't you think the total time you'll save never having to take the car to a gas station, ever, because you can charge it at home while you're sleeping will more than make up for adding some time to your road trips? (Also, for what it's worth, almost no EVs made in the last several years would need to charge for an hour during a three-hour road trip. More like 25 or 30 minutes, max.)

Yeah, you'd have to be averaging a constant 100mph (so, impossible) to need to charge on a three hour trip. Presumably you're not just immediately turning around and coming back, so you can likely charge at your destination and not need to stop at all in the middle of a trip.

Plenty of Teslas have a range <300 miles. https://teslike.com/

And unfortunately not all lodging options have good setups for charging overnight.

We have a Telsa (range is almost 400 miles) and a gas-powered car and rarely take the Tesla.

Our ID.4 has a range of about 250 miles, but if we charge it to 100 percent at home before leaving, then charge for about 20 minutes halfway between here and New York, we can make it there on one charge. There's (finally) now a DC fast charging option near the family we visit there, so we can do another 20 or 30 minute charge up there back to 80 percent, then stop once on the way home, and that's the whole round-trip. (We used to have to stop twice on the way home before charging at the destination was possible.) I'd think a Tesla with a range of nearly 400 miles would make that trip even easier.

We typically go for longer road trips than PP's example.

But, regardless, stopping for 20+ minutes along the route or before we head back would drive me nuts.

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And the ~400 miles is theoretical. We haven't seen nearly that much range.

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Anonymous wrote:lol people are talking about derechos and the coming apocalypse and whether ice or electric is better. The reality is much more basic - if I drive to Virginia Beach on most electrics I have to stress the whole time about deviating from my path to find a charging station, pray there isn't a big line, and best case scenario sit there for 30-45 minutes. I also have to do this on the way back. A 3.5 hour trip becomes a 4.5 hour trip plus a bunch of additional worry. No thanks. Someday electric technology will be "ready" and that day is when cars can charge in 10 minutes or less and go 300-400 miles AND not be crappily made and boring (looking at you Tesla). That day is not here yet, but when it comes I will gladly buy one

There are no less than 10 supercharger stations on the way from DC to VA Beach. Why do you have to stress when driving one of your hypothetical 'most electrics'?

+1 that post cracked me up. It's not like that at all.

The additional worry is the WAITING for the car to charge up. I hear all these ridiculous Tesla owners being like "Well we just plan to stop and eat lunch while our car charges." That's great for you but some of us don't like pissing away an additional hour on a 3 hour trip with roadside junk food.

How many three-hour road trips do you take in a year? Don't you think the total time you'll save never having to take the car to a gas station, ever, because you can charge it at home while you're sleeping will more than make up for adding some time to your road trips? (Also, for what it's worth, almost no EVs made in the last several years would need to charge for an hour during a three-hour road trip. More like 25 or 30 minutes, max.)

Yeah, you'd have to be averaging a constant 100mph (so, impossible) to need to charge on a three hour trip. Presumably you're not just immediately turning around and coming back, so you can likely charge at your destination and not need to stop at all in the middle of a trip.

Plenty of Teslas have a range <300 miles. https://teslike.com/

And unfortunately not all lodging options have good setups for charging overnight.

We have a Telsa (range is almost 400 miles) and a gas-powered car and rarely take the Tesla.

Our ID.4 has a range of about 250 miles, but if we charge it to 100 percent at home before leaving, then charge for about 20 minutes halfway between here and New York, we can make it there on one charge. There's (finally) now a DC fast charging option near the family we visit there, so we can do another 20 or 30 minute charge up there back to 80 percent, then stop once on the way home, and that's the whole round-trip. (We used to have to stop twice on the way home before charging at the destination was possible.) I'd think a Tesla with a range of nearly 400 miles would make that trip even easier.

We typically go for longer road trips than PP's example.

But, regardless, stopping for 20+ minutes along the route or before we head back would drive me nuts.

If you can't tolerate stopping for 20 to 30 minutes en route, then no, an electric car is probably not for you for road trips. But we usually need to stop for a bathroom break for kids, to get snacks, to stretch legs, or whatever, and on really busy travel days, as I said above, the gas lines look like they're close to 20 minutes anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:You want an electric car. But not a Tesla. You want to know what a Chevy Bolt’s range is so instead of going to their website you ask DCUM. Something is wrong with you.

One of the (two?) posters with an ID.4 and I totally get not wanting a Tesla.