The biggest savings being time, and this doesn’t really hit home until you realize that you never have to divert to a gas station during rush hour because you can’t put it off for a sixth day in a row. For all the discussion about how you might have to spend an extra ten minutes charging on a 400 mile road trip, very few people talk about the literal hours saved never visiting a gas station the rest of the time.
It’s seems like a small thing, to buy petrol, but it’s just one more thing to do and with EV it’s not a problem.
But having a slow charging EV does rather hamper road trips; the issue is that most people overvalue the time they’ll be spending at the charger vs weekly petrol stops.
While true, it’s not really a problem with most current Gen EVs and typical travelers. But it is a problem with current infrastructure.
Most people prefer to stop every 2 hours to use the restroom/etc. Let’s say it’s a 10 minute stop. They also want every other stop to be a food stop, let’s say 30 minutes.
That’s more than enough to charge an EV, assuming the stops are at a convenient time. But it’s not yet common to find fast chargers at truck stops, nor are they near amenities like this, nor can the trip planning apps use this as the criteria for when to stop.
Yeah, like, stopping every 2 hours? What? I’d be sooo done after doing this twice xD
Most folk I know are trying to reach the target ASAP, with as little stopping as physically possible, even with kids. For context, I live in EU. Maybe it’s a culture thing…
The biggest savings being time, and this doesn’t really hit home until you realize that you never have to divert to a gas station during rush hour because you can’t put it off for a sixth day in a row. For all the discussion about how you might have to spend an extra ten minutes charging on a 400 mile road trip, very few people talk about the literal hours saved never visiting a gas station the rest of the time.
It’s seems like a small thing, to buy petrol, but it’s just one more thing to do and with EV it’s not a problem.
But having a slow charging EV does rather hamper road trips; the issue is that most people overvalue the time they’ll be spending at the charger vs weekly petrol stops.
While true, it’s not really a problem with most current Gen EVs and typical travelers. But it is a problem with current infrastructure.
Most people prefer to stop every 2 hours to use the restroom/etc. Let’s say it’s a 10 minute stop. They also want every other stop to be a food stop, let’s say 30 minutes.
That’s more than enough to charge an EV, assuming the stops are at a convenient time. But it’s not yet common to find fast chargers at truck stops, nor are they near amenities like this, nor can the trip planning apps use this as the criteria for when to stop.
This would be a problem for people who like to stop 20 minutes / 4-6 hours.
Yeah, like, stopping every 2 hours? What? I’d be sooo done after doing this twice xD
Most folk I know are trying to reach the target ASAP, with as little stopping as physically possible, even with kids. For context, I live in EU. Maybe it’s a culture thing…
And in new cars it really isn’t that slow. 20 minute fill-up is well within the range of “go inside, go pee, get coffee come back”
Whenever i mention this, anti ev people then call me lazy for not wanting to “spend 2 minutes at the gas station” As though it’s ever 2 minutes