Curious, what in the world are you doing that regularly has to on the road for that duration of time?
I’ve owned an EV for about 4 years now. The number of times I’ve been forced to stop at a charging station is twice in that time period. A stop at a gas station is easily 5-10 minutes, something I cannot do at home. The amount of time I’ve personally saved in traveling is huge. Days of time at a pump I never had to spend.
But, I’m only on the road about 2-3 hours a day for my commute. I’m not spending 4-5 hours a day driving very often.
I’m talking about family trips or business trips. From your statement, I can assume you are either in Texas or California. Both have better infrastructures due to being manufacturing states for EVs. So states are not as developed. Yeah, you can do home charging unless you are like many Americans and live in apartments. So places put in their contracts that you can charge there. A 240-range vehicle for me would be a lot of charging.
I live in Colorado, but your point is mostly valid. If you don’t have a home charging solution then an EV starts looking a lot more questionable.
My commute is about 60 miles. The car reports I will burn a bit over 50% battery going there and back again when at full charge, and after the full round trip it’s generally only off by about 1-2% from its topped off estimate. So for my own real world experience? It’s generally accurate for it’s range estimation and when it’s off I generally know why (Driving 85 mph on low traffic days does not help me at ALL).
But still, if your business has you traveling that much then yeah, an EV doesn’t make much sense.
That’s around 4 hours of highway speed driving.
Curious, what in the world are you doing that regularly has to on the road for that duration of time?
I’ve owned an EV for about 4 years now. The number of times I’ve been forced to stop at a charging station is twice in that time period. A stop at a gas station is easily 5-10 minutes, something I cannot do at home. The amount of time I’ve personally saved in traveling is huge. Days of time at a pump I never had to spend.
But, I’m only on the road about 2-3 hours a day for my commute. I’m not spending 4-5 hours a day driving very often.
I’m talking about family trips or business trips. From your statement, I can assume you are either in Texas or California. Both have better infrastructures due to being manufacturing states for EVs. So states are not as developed. Yeah, you can do home charging unless you are like many Americans and live in apartments. So places put in their contracts that you can charge there. A 240-range vehicle for me would be a lot of charging.
I live in Colorado, but your point is mostly valid. If you don’t have a home charging solution then an EV starts looking a lot more questionable.
My commute is about 60 miles. The car reports I will burn a bit over 50% battery going there and back again when at full charge, and after the full round trip it’s generally only off by about 1-2% from its topped off estimate. So for my own real world experience? It’s generally accurate for it’s range estimation and when it’s off I generally know why (Driving 85 mph on low traffic days does not help me at ALL).
But still, if your business has you traveling that much then yeah, an EV doesn’t make much sense.