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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some charging stations also don’t work, are completely in-use, or have varying charging speeds making the whole experience unpredictable.[/quote]

Yes, most people use an EV as a local car for commuting and running errands. We almost never go on long road trips, and we only charge at home, so an EV works for us. [/quote]

Right. Because ICE are better for anything longer than a commute or errands. So EV’s haven’t come remotely close to being a full solution. [/quote]

We've taken an EV to ski trips, beach trips, to drop kids at sleep away camp in rural Virginia and to visit family and friends in New York. [b]The biggest problem we had was having to wait about 20 minutes to use a charging station [/b]on the way back from New York once. It's definitely true that ICE cars are marginally more convenient for road trips, but [b]once you realize you don't need the car to be fully charged (you just need it to have enough charge to get to the next spot to charge), [/b]planning is easier. And the fact that I never have to go anywhere to charge the car EXCEPT when on road trips, because we can charge at home, is a major improvement over ever needing to go buy gas. I just plug it in at night at home.[/quote]

These are non-starters for me. I can go over 400 highway miles on a tank. I can go 2-3 weeks between fillups with normal local driving and I fill up during a weekday when I'm running errands anyway. [/quote]

You can go forever without a fill up with normal local driving with an EV.  You just plug it in at night.  If it takes you 2-3 weeks to drive 400 miles, you wouldnt even need a special charger.[/quote]

Exactly. In most local driving, "enough charge to get to the next spot to charge" just means "do I have enough charge to do all my daily driving today," because you can just plug in at night. On a road trip, it means you don't need to spend 40 minutes charging to 100 percent or whatever, you can instead make two 15 minute stops.

I am aware that for some people, the idea of having to stop at all on a long car trip is unacceptable. If that's the case for you, a fully electric EV is probably not for you. Personally, I think the other advantages of an EV easily outweigh the need to stop to charge and to plan charging in advance. (And the need to plan in advance is starting to evaporate as more DC charging gets built out.) My ICE car has a 10-gallon tank, so it wasn't like I could do a full round-trip road trip up 95 and back on one tank of gas, anyway...[/quote]

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