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> But the secondary selling point was never having to go to a gas station again when I am just barely going to make the meeting and forgot to fill my gas tank t

by jjav 5y ago

> But the secondary selling point was never having to go to a gas station again when I am just barely going to make the meeting and forgot to fill my gas tank the night before. Curious example since that's one of the drawbacks of an EV. If you forgot to fill the gas tank and have to stop, you'll be 5 minutes late. But if you forgot to charge the EV, now you're looking at several hours late (or give up and call a cab).

MrDunham 5y ago
So I have actually been in (close to) this situation. i’ll address a couple of things though… First, since you plug-in every day at home it is very very rare for me to forget. Second, the total available range is still close to my old gas cars which means I need to have forgotten for many days in a row which in the last nine months has never happened. BUT, I did say that I was low on energy on a day I needed to make a long drive… Backstory was I was intentionally draining my battery over a period of about a week without charging (trying to recalibrate the gauges... very rare to do). In the morning on a day I needed to make a three hour round-trip drive I realized I was at 20% power. So I hightailed it to the nearest Tesla supercharger, plugged in, pulled out my laptop (I'm sitting on a giant battery... powering a MacBook is no issue) to get some work done, and 20 minutes later I was at 80% (enough for 200 miles - or my entire round trip). So the power issue was caused semi-intentionally and entirely my fault but also it took very little time to solve it. It would be a bigger issue for somebody who isn’t near a supercharger (and no 220 line at home as they'll go 0->full overnight) but again it is very very easy to remember to plug-in at night and many/most people would generally need to forget to charge for at least three or four days before it becomes an issue.
- jjav 5y ago
  > Second, the total available range is still close to my old gas cars If the range is so huge, I see it might not be an issue. We have a Fiat 500e, so forgetting to charge overnight (or if the timer didn't go on as intended for whatever reason) means a guaranteed crisis in the morning as there's no way to get to work.

by jjav 5y ago

MrDunham 5y ago

So I have actually been in (close to) this situation. i’ll address a couple of things though… First, since you plug-in every day at home it is very very rare for me to forget. Second, the total available range is still close to my old gas cars which means I need to have forgotten for many days in a row which in the last nine months has never happened. BUT, I did say that I was low on energy on a day I needed to make a long drive… Backstory was I was intentionally draining my battery over a period of about a week without charging (trying to recalibrate the gauges... very rare to do). In the morning on a day I needed to make a three hour round-trip drive I realized I was at 20% power. So I hightailed it to the nearest Tesla supercharger, plugged in, pulled out my laptop (I'm sitting on a giant battery... powering a MacBook is no issue) to get some work done, and 20 minutes later I was at 80% (enough for 200 miles - or my entire round trip). So the power issue was caused semi-intentionally and entirely my fault but also it took very little time to solve it. It would be a bigger issue for somebody who isn’t near a supercharger (and no 220 line at home as they'll go 0->full overnight) but again it is very very easy to remember to plug-in at night and many/most people would generally need to forget to charge for at least three or four days before it becomes an issue.

jjav 5y ago
> Second, the total available range is still close to my old gas cars If the range is so huge, I see it might not be an issue. We have a Fiat 500e, so forgetting to charge overnight (or if the timer didn't go on as intended for whatever reason) means a guaranteed crisis in the morning as there's no way to get to work.