While I enjoyed my S10 Blazer EV ( brucedp.150m.com/blazer ) in the charging style Robert describes (L1 95+% of the time), I also had a 20kW combined charging ability for long trips: L1 2x 1.5kW + L2 2 2.5kW+ 2x 6kW). Long-time EV drivers have to understand new-EV-driver's perceived needs, and be patient with those that have not reached our level of EV-enlightenment (or EVlightenment) yet.
I use the sharp gal who was a new Leaf EV driver as a (worst case) example http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVangel-About-Ford-still-pushing-their-pih-One-smart-new-Leaf-driver-tp4669625.html She was using her Leaf EV same as she would the chemical-fuel ice car she drove before (driving here-there-everywhere all day long, & likely not in a circular planned route to conserve $ & minimize pollution). She has not reached a level of EVlightenment to know her hectic day is of her own design. We should remember she had two young sons in the back seat and if not already, she would be the proverbial soccer-Mom before long. I went through this transportation-support effort myself with my son, and much later when I was helping a gal with her three kids, each needing to do their own activities in different directions each day. The new EV driver's day might be something like: take the kids to their school(s), get some shopping or an appointment done, run back to a school because a kid forgot something, later pick up the kids at their school(s), get them something to eat before she takes them to their activities, take them home, etc. Being a parent with a self-imposed driving schedule like that is quite demanding and will put on many miles on what ever vehicle she is driving. So, for her, having a L3 ability and L3 EVSE all over, lets her transition from an ice car to an EV fairly easily, see L3 map http://www.afdc.energy.gov/locator/stations/results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&location=94089&filtered=true&fuel=ELEC&owner=all&payment=all&ev_dc_fast=true&radius=true&radius_miles=15 While some might think she was burning up the planet when she drove an ice, and now she is trying to do the same while driving an EV(!), that driving scenario I laid out is not uncommon for some parents in the SF bay area (many live at a fast-pace here). If you think about it, her switching to an EV and using an EV to drive that much each day, is not that much different than a plug-in hybrid driver. They want to drive as much electric as possible (saves $) but need the ability to fulfill their hectic/reactionary day by having an ice to kick in when they have drained the pack. I hope long-time EV drivers will continue to have tolerance for how new-EV-drivers use of their EVs, and perhaps carefully word what they say to them to help them in a direction that lets them eventually achieve our level of EVlightenment. {brucedp.150m.com} ... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grasshopper "Ah, watch and learn, Grasshopper ... " - > On 12 Jun 2014, at 15:28, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > Anyone who buys an EV with the idea of routine public charging does not > understand the value promise of an EV. Why hassle with "public charging > stations" when the whole idea of abandoning gas was to avoid public gas > stations??? She says herself that she does not drive much. And a full > days > travel is within a single charge. Yet she wont plug in at home because it > "takes too long" ? Surely she has to sleep. > > All this focus on public charging when the typical American car spends 21 > hours a day parked (mostly at home or at work) provides more than 80 miles > of daily charging opportunity just plugging into a 120v outlet (at home or > at work)... Since she visits the same friends, just bring along an > extension cord to reach her outlet and bring along a cup of coffee or 50 > cents to pay for the electricity. > > We have to educate people (not the 1% that drive EV's) but the other 99% > who > have OUTLETS that the average US cost to charge and EV from a 120v outlet > is > about 15 cents an hour (10c/kWh electricity). Sooner or later everyone > will > have an EV friend that comes to visit and would benefit from a charge. - -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Chicago-quilter-plugs-into-her-new-Focus-EV-cutie-tp4669929p4669942.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
