That is what i need to do a return trip on the longest distance I do on a fairly regular basis and what the car would be mostly used for. (I have moved away from most of my family.)
I can’t trust public chargers to be available at the destination.
People still have a tendency to not move their car after charging and there’s still a general shortage of them.
For me personally is because I don’t have property to charge overnight.
And I’m in a country where China is flooding their EVs in the market.
Edit: to clarify, I am convinced with EV. I’ve been drinking the big oil koolaid for too long and glad I stopped. Better late than never.
Tbf I haven’t really done my research for local charging stations and their prices. Also the fa t that even the market here being flooded with cheap Chinese EVs, it is still more than I can responsibly afford. So for now I keep maintaining my current petrol car.
What mostly makes this problematic is that there still aren’t enough public charging spots out in the wild to counter this handicap, people occupy those that are available for way too long and they charge quite a bit more for the kwh then you’d have to fork over at home.
Especially when you can smart charge with variable rates and/or leverage solar panels.
I live in vertically built op neighbourhood from the 1950’s so charging on my own meter, much like having things like solar panels, won’t ever be a thing.
I do not believe this makes owning electric cars impossible persé, but the the public infrastructure is also lacking, and they won’t expand this without people buying more electric cars.
But people aren’t buying electric cars because they can’t charge. Nobody here can charge at home, even if we do have plenty of people that have the income bracket to drive electric, so it has to come from public availablity.
Progress has been extremely slow.
Don’t let my origional comment take away from the fact i’m 100 percent pro electric, I think it’s cool as hell, but there’s still plenty of situations where they are more than a little inconvenient. Having long range models here would at least reduce the frequency at which you’d need to charge.
Why do you need 400km+ range? Is this for a daily/weekly need or a once in a quarter holiday trip style need?
That is what i need to do a return trip on the longest distance I do on a fairly regular basis and what the car would be mostly used for. (I have moved away from most of my family.)
I can’t trust public chargers to be available at the destination. People still have a tendency to not move their car after charging and there’s still a general shortage of them.
This is the right question - people who have never owned an EV vastly overestimate the range they’ll need, almost always.
Usually 200-300km is good enough range for most ppl on US. For other countries, I’ve found 150km to be more than sufficient.
Overnight charging from a heater outlet is usually sufficient for normal daily use.
Weekends usually add 100-200 km range easily in case the daily usage is slightly higher than daily overnight charge.
Charging at office is also an increasingly possible option.
For me personally is because I don’t have property to charge overnight.
And I’m in a country where China is flooding their EVs in the market.
Edit: to clarify, I am convinced with EV. I’ve been drinking the big oil koolaid for too long and glad I stopped. Better late than never.
Tbf I haven’t really done my research for local charging stations and their prices. Also the fa t that even the market here being flooded with cheap Chinese EVs, it is still more than I can responsibly afford. So for now I keep maintaining my current petrol car.
Overnight charging is really critical to EV success. I can see why not having that would make it painful
What mostly makes this problematic is that there still aren’t enough public charging spots out in the wild to counter this handicap, people occupy those that are available for way too long and they charge quite a bit more for the kwh then you’d have to fork over at home. Especially when you can smart charge with variable rates and/or leverage solar panels.
I live in vertically built op neighbourhood from the 1950’s so charging on my own meter, much like having things like solar panels, won’t ever be a thing.
I do not believe this makes owning electric cars impossible persé, but the the public infrastructure is also lacking, and they won’t expand this without people buying more electric cars. But people aren’t buying electric cars because they can’t charge. Nobody here can charge at home, even if we do have plenty of people that have the income bracket to drive electric, so it has to come from public availablity.
Progress has been extremely slow. Don’t let my origional comment take away from the fact i’m 100 percent pro electric, I think it’s cool as hell, but there’s still plenty of situations where they are more than a little inconvenient. Having long range models here would at least reduce the frequency at which you’d need to charge.