Well, and that essentially proves my point. Tesla has truly fast
chargers. The rest of us get about 50kW at best. The weak link at this
point in adoption is the charging.
Peri
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From: "Willie via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Cc: "Willie" <wmckem...@gmail.com>
Sent: 26-Oct-17 10:06:31 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: (ice) Experts say there's no need for a 750mi
EV-range sweet spot
On 10/26/2017 11:40 AM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
Oh, simple. If I want to take a 300 mile trip, and my EV can go 200+
miles on a charge, I will need to stop for an hour to charge. You and
I might be willing to do that, but most people will not. And some
people drive 600 or miles in a day. They absolutely will not tolerate
3 hours of down time.
Teslas charge at up to 400 mph. For the lower half of the capacity,
the rate is typically more than 200 mph. With the normal SuperCharger
spacing of about 100 miles, charge times are rarely as much as 1/2
hour. Tesla drivers pretty quickly learn to minimize charging time by
using only the middle portion of the battery capacity, something like
arriving with 20 miles of remaining range and charging to 150-180 miles
of range. Granted, sometimes an hour of charging is necessary but that
happens infrequently. For a 300 mile trip, with some charging
opportunity at the destination, only about 15 minutes of charging would
be needed somewhere in the last half of the trip.
Further, you might not find a level 3 charger at the right point, so
you may need to charge when you still have 50-100 miles range left,
meaning even more down time.
With a Tesla, you know how many working and available stalls are at
your next stop.
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From: "Mark Abramowitz" <ma...@enviropolicy.com>
I am not seeing Mark's posts.
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