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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Tesla model Y (SUV style) is now about $50K.  We have ordered ours (and it looks like a lot of folks in our NW DC neighborhood already have one).  It has range of a little over 300.  As I understand it, the advantage of buying a Tesla right now is that beyond the car itself, Teslas can charge on almost all chargers but only Teslas can charge on Tesla superchargers.  So the ability to use the fast chargers on a road trip is a big advantage.  That might change in the future, but right now Tesla is dominant for charging on the road.  [/quote]

We're thinking of buying a non-Tesla EV and just took a road trip in our gas car [b]up I-95[/b] -- we were paying pretty close attention to the EV charging infrastructure because we wondered about doing the trip with the new car. There were non-Tesla fast charging options at all but one of the rest stops we used for gas and/or bathroom breaks (and that one was about 15 miles from another one that did have a non-Tesla charging station).

I don't know what Tesla's price to use their stations is if you have one of their cars, so maybe that's an advantage if it's free or heavily discounted compared to one of the other networks. But I didn't see any particular reason to worry about availability of non-Tesla fast charging, at least between here and New York.[/quote]

I think "up" is the operative word here. I'm assuming you were traveling north?  If so, I can see where the NE states would have a larger footprint.  I somehow doubt I would find that many charging stations on my way to SC to visit my parents, although I could be wrong.[/quote]

PlugShare shows a ton of chargers along I-95 south from D.C. toward South Carolina, including a lot of Electrify America options that look like they'd probably get you from here to Charleston without having to pay for DC fast charging if you had a VW or an Audi and get free EA charging. Looks like there's one in Richmond, one in Emporia, Va. (just north of the North Carolina border), one in Rocky Mount, Smithfield, and Lumberton, N.C., and then one in Florence in the middle of South Carolina, plus options on the outskirts of Charleston, near Columbia, and near Greenville. And that's just the Electrify America stations. PlugShare shows a bunch of other ones along I-95 heading that way, too, but you'd have to pay to use most of those. I'd bet planning a trip to see your parents would be pretty easy.[/quote]

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