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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are getting ready to buy a Porsche. The car it is replacing is 10 years old and wont last until the EVs come out (2023 at the earliest). And we regularly drive 500 miles to our 2nd home (doing it again in 2 weeks) so we need at least 1 gas or hybrid car to make that drive without having the worry about recharging. I think they are projecting that the EV Macan will have a range around 200 miles. I sat in a Taycan recently and it was not comfortable, nor is the design practical for us to haul things.

We do plan to get a EV for a second car when that car needs to be replaced.[/quote]

Do you regularly make a 500-mile drive in your gas car without having to stop to refuel? Where is your vacation home? I'd bet there's a very convenient way to charge it on the way there.[/quote]

Refueling takes 5 minutes. And we can actually make it 500 miles on a full tank, although we usually have to stop once to go to the bathroom. A 200 mile range means 2 recharging stops, and normally we don't stop for more than 10-15 minutes total in a trip.[/quote]

The fast charging stations only take like 10-15 minutes to charge your car fully.  So 5 minutes would charge it partially. [/quote]

Yeah, you don’t need to charge to full, just charge enough to get you to the next place where you’ll charge (so either the next fast charging station or home). We drove our EV to New York recently. Stopped once to charge on the way there, for 18 minutes. Stopped twice on the way home to charge, for 20 and 22 minutes. Plugged it in when we got home, and it was ready to go the next morning with a full “tank.” Can’t do that with our gas car, which now mostly just sits at home. [/quote]

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