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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be somewhat of a pain if you end up without garage parking but I expect it would be very manageable.

Your car will probably have 200-250 mile range, which means for the kind of thing you are talking about you'd probably only be charging once every 3-4 weeks?  And you can probably put 175-200 miles in the car in about 20 minutes-- so you get some coffee or shop at target or worst case hang out on your phone.

I agree I'd get what you want to get and it should work out fine.[/quote]

yeah it would work if OP doesn't drive it a lot. 250 miles is a lot of driving if you're in the city. A lot of grocery stores have EV chargers, so they could just charge it up during their weekly shopping trip.[/quote]

I've been trying to do this (charge while grocery shopping) and I think it's worked 1/10 times. Just so many problems with blocked chargers and non-functioning chargers.  I think Whole Foods likes the image of having EV chargers but doesn't actually care if they are accessible or operational.[/quote]

Grocery store chargers aren't really all that useful as a substitute for home charging, anyway -- they're almost all level 2 chargers, so even if they aren't blocked, you'll only get a few miles added to your battery by the time you're done in the store. If you can get to a DC fast charging station, you can probably charge to 80 percent in 20 or 30 minutes, though, no matter what state of charge you're starting with. As long as you're OK with making time to do that once or twice a week, OP, you should be fine if and when you wind up without garage parking and home charging.[/quote]

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