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by _ea1k 3y ago
That isn't even remotely relevant to my comment, in context. :)
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Average US price for electricity is ~$.15/kwh. A Model 3 will use ~330 wh/mile at highway speeds, and if you charged _very_ inefficiently (level 1), you'd see gross of around 360 wh/mile. Compared to a gas car that can g
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, people will say none of this matters, but talk to people in the gas station biz and you find out differently. Which side of the street or traffic circle the station on has a huge impact. It turns out, even 10-30 seconds during a commu
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I think you've never experienced a long commute without gas stops.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Honestly, it just depends. Atlanta to NYC would be a 2 day for me. Even in the gas car, I'd only do ~650-700 before a stop. In an EV, that's ~11 hours on day 1, charge up at the hotel, and do one 15 minute stop on day 2. Before I
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Fair enough. Dealers are... not great.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That last part is the problem. The "oh noes, it will take 4 hour stops to ... cccchhaarrrggeee" types need communication. They think it will take 1000 mile ranges to replace their Corolla. You might not know if it you haven't
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It is hilarious that this gets downvoted, when it is very obviously true. I might as well say the sky is blue. :)
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I had a guy on a Tesla forum one time that told me that an EV would be totally impractical for him. His reason was because he'd need to stop for so long to charge on a little trip of ~500 miles (maybe a little less) and there might not
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by _ea1k 3y ago
But you aren't asking random people. You are asking EV owners on Hacker News. In general, EV owners are pretty savvy. More than most actually know what they pay per kwh and have a pretty good idea of their consumption. The biggest comm
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, I remember when Chevrolet bragged a lot about beating the Model 3 to market and how great it was. But it had optional fast charging of only ~50kw! Their management really could not understand the idea that the prime consumer for this
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> I am uncertain because the media largely buries the issues with EVs I've read enough media to see the opposite. Tiny numbers of car fires are constantly getting exaggerated, meanwhile the steady stream of gas car fires get no disc
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by _ea1k 3y ago
If we know the kwh, we can extrapolate both that and situation specific numbers. Average $/kwh in the US is ~$.15. This is just like a gas car, where the conversation would start with mpg, not "What's your gas cost per month
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't really get one if I had to go >350 miles on anything but extraordinarily rare occasions. But I have owned cars that fit that usage model really well. I used to have a "second" car that was used as a commut
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by _ea1k 3y ago
There are some significant engineering advantages to not having an engine. The crumple zones are overall more effective. The Vibe isn't bad at all, though. I wouldn't switch just for safety ratings.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Most of your issues have nothing to do with EVs, tbh. :lol Your Vibe fills up in your garage while you are sleeping? Cool.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
For a lot of commuters, the EV will be more convenient. Getting out of the car during the commute home (or worse, the commute to work) was never fun.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Sure, but we don't have to look past them to get to 50% market share. The market can grow by 5x without moving past them. The problem in the US is that you have to have really large market share to start convincing property owners that
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Thankfully, DCFC is now standard! The rate isn't phenomenal, just as you pointed out, but this car competes with Civics. Many of those are purely commuter cars that might only very rarely do 300-400 miles. It is a great vehicle.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'd rather just see the kwh usage. Rates vary wildly in the US, even within the same state. Some states with average prices have utilities with cheap power. And others with overall low rates have dumb utilities that charge high rates i
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Bolt starts at ~$26k. Civic starts at just under $24k. The Bolt is a mediocre road tripper, but lots of cars in that segment are just commuters that only very occasionally road trip. It'd be a great choice for a lot of people.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes, EVs are most convenient for well over half the country. I'd say that we are nowhere near saturation. But reading the room leads me to believe that there are a lot of people in your target demographic who think that EVs are for cit
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes, pulling a trailer cuts heavily into range. Most people don't do that, but most that do should stick to gas or diesel.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Because it wouldn't save a meaningful amount of money over the life of the car, but it would make developing and manufacturing them significantly more expensive.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
In the US, this isn't the case yet. Other makes won't get access to all V3+ superchargers until later this year. Supposedly, Ford will get it next month.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
lol, I was just about to read the article to see if they were lying. Thanks for saving me the time. Growth in 2022 was wildly high. Model launches this year have been slow. Growth shockingly fit with product launches. But instead we get wei
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by _ea1k 3y ago
ABRP's default assumes really close to the (often incorrectly mapped) speed limits. Having said that, your figures are probably pretty close. You'd just need to adjust the drive time for 80+ instead of ~70, and increase the charge
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That counts as being in the Rivian/Lightning/Hummer realm.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Make sure that you set the speeds in abrp to your actual driving speeds. It sounds like you are doing ~85?
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, people don't realize that it is actually quite easy. Maybe not better, but also not meaningfully worse in many (not all) cases. Strangely, the worst cases are often things like day trips. A 250-400 mile day can be harder to plan

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