• Ocelot@lemmies.world
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    1 year ago

    Its true for road trips but the vast majority of EV owners charge while parked at work or at home, meaning they spend far less time charging their car than it would take to keep fuel in a gas car. Just plug it in and walk away. You leave every morning with a full tank. It makes the 20 minute charges necessary on longer road trips well more than worth the tradeoff. Its way healthier to get out of the car and stretch your legs every 2-3 hours anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but for everyday driving you’re charging all the time that you can. If you aren’t supercharging (not good for the battery, also not everywhere), it takes like 8-40 hours to charge up depending on voltage. Even 8 hours isn’t short enough to not think about it. Forget to plug-in and you could have a headache when you realize you don’t have the juice for your trip.

      Also charging at work is a pain because there are limited spots usually and you gotta fight for it.

      For me I prefer PHEV until more kinks are worked out.

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        1 year ago

        To each their own but I disagree with that. 8 hours is whats needed to get from 0-100%, and the vast majority of the time you’re only going to need to charge from 20-80% at most. If you use your car so much and never need sleep to the point that your car can never be found sitting for long enough to charge, then… wow. You would have to be driving about 20 hours per day, every day and putting over 400,000 miles per year on your car for that to not make sense. I don’t know about you but I know thats not the case for 99.999% of people.

        Most people drive 100 miles per-day at the most, and even that is quite a lot from their normal usage. Adding 100 miles of charge to an average EV takes about 4-5 hours at level 2, like while parked in a garage. You can further cut this down by plugging in at your destination as well. As long as you’re a human who occasionally needs sleep I don’t see any issue.

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          1 year ago

          I understand for most people that there is ample time to charge in a day. But, you’re always doing it. It’s another thing to maintain and think about all the time. Most people fill their gas tank once every week or two and that’s that. Charging becomes an everyday thing.