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300 miles, this is like 5-6 hours? You don't want to take a break for 15 minutes to go the bathroom and get a bite? That is all you need to add during your driv

300 miles, this is like 5-6 hours? You don't want to take a break for 15 minutes to go the bathroom and get a bite? That is all you need to add during your drive if you start with a fully charged battery. It can also be done at pretty much any point besides the first and last 50 miles.

DrBazza 4y ago
Genuinely curious, what EV can give you a comfortable 300 mile with a good threshold, and charge in 15 minutes from a regular EV point? As I said in the other reply, there's a paucity of EV chargers in the UK that are not along a major route, there aren't a large number of them, and they're rarely 'superchargers'.
- jnsaff2 4y ago
  When you leave for your trip your car is full. The Tesla Model 3 has a real world range of 300 miles [0]. You want to give yourself a 50 mile buffer. So you need to add about 13kWh of energy along the route. That's like 8 minutes with a 100kW charger round it up to quarter hour. [0] https://ev-database.org/car/1591/Tesla-Model-3-Long-Range-Dual-Motor https://ev-database.org/car/1591/Tesla-Model-3-Long-Range-Du...
  - Gareth321 4y ago
    285 miles on the highway isn't bad but that's only in mild weather. People in the North (American and Europe) live six months of the year in cold weather. Then they get 217 miles on the highway. In Europe this isn't even three hours of driving. And this is one of the best ranges on an EV under $70k.
    - jnsaff2 4y ago
      I mean this is just what abouting and hunting for edge cases where you can feel good for being camp gas-car. And I guess that is fine. I am just saying that having lived with a reasonable family-EV for a year, there has been nothing that would make me regret the decision. Someone trying to convince me that I should have regrets is just gaslighting.
      - Gareth321 4y ago
        It's a very common scenario for hundreds of millions of people. I'm really happy that your EV works for your family's use case. It doesn't work for mine.

DrBazza 4y ago

Genuinely curious, what EV can give you a comfortable 300 mile with a good threshold, and charge in 15 minutes from a regular EV point? As I said in the other reply, there's a paucity of EV chargers in the UK that are not along a major route, there aren't a large number of them, and they're rarely 'superchargers'.

jnsaff2 4y ago
When you leave for your trip your car is full. The Tesla Model 3 has a real world range of 300 miles [0]. You want to give yourself a 50 mile buffer. So you need to add about 13kWh of energy along the route. That's like 8 minutes with a 100kW charger round it up to quarter hour. [0] https://ev-database.org/car/1591/Tesla-Model-3-Long-Range-Dual-Motor https://ev-database.org/car/1591/Tesla-Model-3-Long-Range-Du...
- Gareth321 4y ago
  285 miles on the highway isn't bad but that's only in mild weather. People in the North (American and Europe) live six months of the year in cold weather. Then they get 217 miles on the highway. In Europe this isn't even three hours of driving. And this is one of the best ranges on an EV under $70k.
  - jnsaff2 4y ago
    I mean this is just what abouting and hunting for edge cases where you can feel good for being camp gas-car. And I guess that is fine. I am just saying that having lived with a reasonable family-EV for a year, there has been nothing that would make me regret the decision. Someone trying to convince me that I should have regrets is just gaslighting.
    - Gareth321 4y ago
      It's a very common scenario for hundreds of millions of people. I'm really happy that your EV works for your family's use case. It doesn't work for mine.