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The charging time is a bug, and you always see this "it's a food break" workaround trotted out when it's brought up. Indeed, you should use the downtime in some

The charging time is a bug, and you always see this "it's a food break" workaround trotted out when it's brought up. Indeed, you should use the downtime in some way other than sitting in the car twiddling your thumbs, but make no mistake this is a bug. We can tolerate it sometimes maybe, but it needs a real fix. Yesterday I hopped in a car and drove from the bay area to LA in one shot using 3/4 tank of gas. That's a nearly 400 mile trip done in under 6 hours. This is simply not possible in a tesla (or any EV, let's be fair). I had adaptive cruise control and lane assist to offload most of the cognitive load and I was able to hop out of the car at the valet and go right into the wedding hall without even needing to freshen up. It was that painless. Compare to a tesla where I would have had to leave an hour earlier and also spend 45 minutes wandering around in my suit in a one horse town in the middle of nowhere grabbing fast food and watching tumbleweeds blow by. I guess this is really 2 problems. Primarily charge time, but also range.

asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
You would have needed to wait at most fifteen-twenty minutes at a supercharger, since that's all the time it takes to get a 200 mile charge. This doesn't take away from your point that the charging time is a demerit, but 45 minutes is an exaggeration. (I do not own an EV for what it's worth, although I certainly would if I regularly commuted by car.)
clouddrover 5y ago
> That's a nearly 400 mile trip done in under 6 hours. This is simply not possible in a tesla (or any EV, let's be fair). The Lucid Air can get 500 miles of range at 70 miles per hour. The Lucid does it through both better efficiency and a big battery: https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-record/ https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-re... The Aptera claims 1,000 miles of range in the biggest battery spec. It's very aerodynamic. It will be interesting to see a real world test: https://aptera.us/vehicle/ https://aptera.us/vehicle/

asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago

You would have needed to wait at most fifteen-twenty minutes at a supercharger, since that's all the time it takes to get a 200 mile charge. This doesn't take away from your point that the charging time is a demerit, but 45 minutes is an exaggeration. (I do not own an EV for what it's worth, although I certainly would if I regularly commuted by car.)

clouddrover 5y ago

> That's a nearly 400 mile trip done in under 6 hours. This is simply not possible in a tesla (or any EV, let's be fair). The Lucid Air can get 500 miles of range at 70 miles per hour. The Lucid does it through both better efficiency and a big battery: https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-record/ https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-re... The Aptera claims 1,000 miles of range in the biggest battery spec. It's very aerodynamic. It will be interesting to see a real world test: https://aptera.us/vehicle/ https://aptera.us/vehicle/