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And what's your estimate of the % of the US population who's in your situation?
by greglindahl 9y ago
And what's your estimate of the % of the US population who's in your situation?
- ams6110 9y agoWell, at least the entire population of my state.
- greglindahl 9y agoSo, you're going to complain endlessly about this being an important issue without any interest in quantifying the issue. Gotcha. Great HN discussion topic.
- alphapapa 9y agoIs your attitude typical of Tesla owners?
- greglindahl 9y agoThat depends on what you're guessing my attitude is. I suspect most Tesla owners might be a bit miffed when told supercharging takes hours -- it never does -- and then are told that it's unlikely that trips outside major cities will have any superchargers available -- when they are for the most popular routes. I totally get that not every route has coverage. But these are questions of fact: unlikely is < 50%, and Tesla passed that level of coverage several years ago.
- alphapapa 9y agoI'm observing that your attitude is defensive, as if the assertions you're refuting are personally insulting to you, as if they imply that you shouldn't have bought a Tesla. I don't understand why this is so.
- todd8 9y agoTesla is very popular here in Austin and I'm seriously considering buying one myself. There are a couple on my small street of just a dozen houses. However, the Tesla would only be for use in the city and I would still plan on having a second car for driving around the state. Texas has, I think around 16 Superchargers; that's one Supercharger for every 1.7 million people in the state, about a thousand times less than the number of gas stations. There are extremely large portions of the state without Superchargers and inter-city driving wouldn't really be practical. Even in a gasoline powered vehicle the distances between stations can be over 100 miles (I'm thinking of the highway that crosses the King Ranch, but that's not the only long stretch).