On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, David Kerzel via EV wrote: > There are plenty of other issues: what if the EVSE was out of service or > what if the power was out? I don't believe there is any guarantee a charge > will be available when you need one any place but at home.
Exactly why I only use my EV for round trips within range of my home. All the emphasis on public charging is a red herring in my opinion. I think it convinces more people that EV's aren't yet appropriate than it convinces people to buy an EV. I have noticed that most people think they drive much further than they do. I drive my car about 1000 miles a month and never use opportunity charging. I talk to people who also drive about 1000 miles per month taking the same number of trips as I take and think they would need to spend hours waiting for their car to charge everywhere they go. I admit to spending hours waiting for my car to charge (it takes about 5.5 hours to charge from the very low battery warning to 100%), but I sleep during this time. I think we could do more to increase the popularity of EVs by showing people just how seldom they would need to use their "second" car. Out here in Silicon Valley, I have noticed that many people have purchased electric cars for access to the carpool lane. It seems as though all of these people have discovered that they use the EV for all their weekend errands as well as their daily commute. The other family car gets parked on weekends. Ed _______________________________________________ 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)
