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At least for me, it's not just charging time for longer distance driving, it's charger availability. Driving a gas car, I can be pretty confident that as long
by rainsford 2y ago
At least for me, it's not just charging time for longer distance driving, it's charger availability. Driving a gas car, I can be pretty confident that as long as I'm not driving through Death Valley, I will be able to easily find numerous places where I just need a credit card and I can fill up.
Electric chargers on the other hand are a festival of incompatibility, unreliability, unexpectedly slow charging, broken chargers, mandatory terrible apps, lack of availability off major roads, etc. Now every trip is like driving a gas car through the middle of rural Australia, where you have to carefully plan your stops and hope nothing goes wrong.
Now I admit all that is getting better, but the experience is still worse than taking a road trip in a gas car. And most importantly, it's something people feel less comfortable relying on. If the only difference was time to fill up, I don't think it would be an issue for a lot of people.
- USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y agoThis is the stupidest discriminatory hurdle that ought to be regulated ASAP. With cash or card on hand you can get fossil fuels with only one question asked, "anything else?". Electricity? Boy, you better have that curriculum vitae on hand, because we're gonna get to know each other very well before that IoT relay makes contact.
- Schiendelman 2y agoIt's honestly not like that anymore. I thought I'd read that Tesla fired their supercharging team, but ten more have opened around my city in the last six months. The price of electricity keeps dropping too, because the networks are competing with each other. And even cheap hotels more and more often have free L2 charging - I had multiple options in Casper, Wyoming, a few months ago! I road trip far more than the average American, and I think it's no longer an issue.