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Old 08-17-2022, 05:22 PM   #167
The Maverick
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I can’t wait to add another 8 hours of charging time to all my vacations out west. Sounds amazing sitting and waiting to go 2-300 more miles.
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Fast chargers are way faster than that. 80% in 18 minutes. So if you have a 300 mile range car, you’d be spending 18 minutes every 200 miles or so. Longer than a gas and go but if you add lunch and a potty stop you are about there. But this remaining hurdle is why I remain hesitant. Fast chargers aren’t at every exit on the highway so it still requires planning you don’t have to do in an ICE. BUT THE EV owners I know have crossed this emotional hurdle and accept the planning necessary.
Back in the late nineties I drove from northern California to Mazatlan, an awesome four-day road trip, to meet up with friends at their timeshare. I made it a three-day drive back, by doing Arizona to northern California in one looong day.

This seems like an experience that is currently (and for the foreseeable future) impossible with an EV?
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