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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think you have to ask an EV owner for this information. You can search for charging stations along your route on google maps and do a little simulation in your head of whether it's worth sitting around for 30 minutes or more on your specific trip. For me the answer is a clear no. For non-tesla electric vehicles (I refuse to buy a tesla) there are very few charging stations even between somewhere like DC and virginia beach. If I want to drive an EV spiritedly and/or get stuck in a bunch of traffic, I would have to constantly bite my nails about running out of charge on the way. And yeah, sitting around for 30 minutes anywhere SUCKS. A restaurant? Who wants to stop and eat fast food when they're trying to make time on a trip. It's bad enough pulling off and spending 7 minutes getting gas. Turning a 3 hour trip into a 3 hour 40 minute trip is just not acceptable for me[/quote]

For what it's worth, A Better Route Planner, which is a pretty popular route-planning app, says you can stop at an Electrify America station at a Walmart in Stafford, Va., for 10 minutes en route from D.C. to Virginia Beach and arrive in Virginia Beach with 11 percent battery life if you drive a VW ID.4. If you wanted to make sure you didn't have to bite your nails about range, you could make it a 15- or 20-minute stop, though you also pass three more Electrify America stations and like eight or nine other charging stations near your destination, so you'd probably be OK.[/quote]

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