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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 f
by 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.