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ShredderFeeder

@CosmicTraveler @mhoye I had a friend buy one of those a few years back. I think he took it back after about two weeks and bought a Prius.

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Janne Moren

@ShredderFeeder @CosmicTraveler @mhoye
L2 charging is all you need at home. You have plenty of time to charge while parked. And it's better for the battery. Save fast charging for road trips.

ShredderFeeder

@jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye When I do road trips I do straight through trips. (half of my annual mileage is my summer beach trip, and I usually do it in a single drive with a 10 minute gas break.

530 miles in about 6 hours. Can't do that in an electric.

Mike M.

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye
Aptera, if/when it comes to market. (They claim 400 miles on a single charge. [Edited; idk where I got "900 miles", they actually claim 400.] Very aerodynamic, and three wheels (taildragger) to reduce rolling resistance. Only seats two, but has a large, tapered trunk. Currently on the 4th or 5th developmental version.)

PuddleOfKittens

@mmlvx @ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye

aptera.us still claims "Travel up to
1,000 miles on a single charge", but AIUI they're offering several versions and the cheapest model only does 400.

ShredderFeeder

@PuddleOfKittens @mmlvx @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye

It's an interesting idea. Supplemental power is not a bad thing because batteries alone aren't going to be good enough.

Kevin Freitas replied to ShredderFeeder

@ShredderFeeder @mmlvx @PuddleOfKittens @mhoye @jannem @CosmicTraveler We’ve had an EV with charging in our garage (power had to be run from back of house, cost only $1100 total) since 2018 and have taken various road trips with zero problems.

Never visiting a gas station (charging stations are quiet, don’t smell, and are a welcome 20 min break from driving for us and our kid), the quiet drive, and lack of maintenance are well worth it

Ari Gesher

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye

You would need maybe two charge stops. So it would take 40 minutes total, 30 additional minutes.

Definitely sounds like a dealbreaker to me.

Kees van Malssen

@arigesher @ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye and oh boy. Two 20-minute breaks on a 10 hour ride (iso 1x10 minutes) would make it more relaxed and save. The horror!

Der Giga

@KFvMalssen @arigesher @ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye Yeah, I have to do more breaks on a job, where I'm not even able to kill anyone.
Would definitely make the street safer for everyone

ShredderFeeder

@arigesher @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye The last 100 or so miles is charger-station-free backwater South Carolina. So it would have to be one good charge at the halfway point more likely...and you'd coast into that one on your last electrons..

aardvark

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye ok don’t buy one. Or rent your vacation vehicle. Your singular use case represents a tiny fraction of what people do daily with their cars.

Hazel Weakly

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye I do this every month, and regularly need to round trip Seattle to Portland without time to charge. Between that and not having access to a charger at my house or any other location, and it's a completely unavailable solution for me.

That said, I recognize I'm in the vast minority here. Essentially everyone in America should be able to do EVs already even without better infrastructure.

matzipan

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye you literallu can do it nowadays. I did it 400 miles just this weekend with a single food break and charge left at the end.

gkrnours

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye you could have an electric for the 49 weeks where you do short trip and rent a really nice car with the saved money to go to the beach for the remaining 2 weeks

jesse

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye you can't do that in a normal car either. 530 miles in 6 hours is an average of 88 mph, not accounting for acceleration or deceleration or your gas stop.

If half of your annual mileage is 1,060, you don't need to own a car.

SuperMoosie

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye

So you are telling is you go for 6 hours with out eating or going to the toilet or having a decent enough break not to be driving fatigued and hence higher risk of having a accident.

ShredderFeeder

@SuperMoosie @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye I did DC to Orlando in 12 hours once. You eat in the car and stop for bio breaks while gassing. Never more than 10 minutes.

I love driving. It's my happy place. I don't do it for work anymore so when I do I enjoy it

bluGill

@ShredderFeeder

@mhoye @CosmicTraveler @jannem while many people do trips like that doctors and highway safety engineers tell you not to. Take longes breaks for health and safety.

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