Only 31% of Americans want an EV or PHEV. What about you?

[K1052]

It has to be the speed. Doing over 74-75 in my i3 rapidly drains the battery.

 

[Brovane]

He charged to 100% at home, but didn't think he had enough to get home so charged to 100% in OKC before heading back to Tulsa (~120 miles). Obviously not what he should've done for time efficiency, but the bigger issue is needing to charge in the middle of a 240 mile trip.

I do plan on telling him about A Better Route Planner.

From what I am reading your co-worker probably has a M3 RWD which only has about 270 mile EPA range which is why he couldn't do the complete trip without charging. With a Tesla I really don't see a issue at stopping to charge because the charging is fairly quick. In February of this year I had taken what I consider a roughly similar trip from Phoenix to Tucson and back to Phoenix while I was on a business trip for my employer. I had driven from San Diego to Phoenix in my Model Y. I left Phoenix with about 80% charge since the hotel didn't have a L2 charger. I drove to Tucson with 2 other co-workers with me in the car. I was driving at speeds of 80 mph+ for long parts of the trip along the I-10. FYI - Tesla FSD doesn't allow you to set your max speed above 85 mph. On the way back I needed to charge. We stopped at a gas station/convenience store right off the Interstate to charge with a bunch of Tesla V3 Superchargers. Tesla route planner navigated me to the charging station. I pulled in with 19% and within 20 mins I was back at 80% and we left. We barely had time to use the bathroom and grab a snack. It really was a non-event. Both of my co-workers who don't own EV's where shocked at how quick the charging was considering all the stuff they had heard about EV's charging slowly.

 

[IronWing]

We stopped at a gas station/convenience store right off the Interstate to charge with a bunch of Tesla V3 Superchargers. Tesla route planner navigated me to the charging station. I pulled in with 19% and within 20 mins I was back at 80% and we left. We barely had time to use the bathroom and grab a snack.


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Did you appreciate the ice in the urinals?

 

[Brovane]

Did you appreciate the ice in the urinals?

Yes and that they where clean. It was a good location for a SC. Some locations are not nearly as great.

 

[AdamK47]

A big part of EV buyers remorse has to do with basic human behavior. People saw other people buying them up in '21/'22. Talking constantly about them. This lead to a boom in sales with buying behavior that goes back thousands of years. Reasoning goes out the window. Financial implications go out the window. Their neighbors are doing it, so it must be right.

That shiny veneer has worn off. The hype is gone. FOMO a distant memory. Reality sets in. Now things that actually do matter overshadow the once blissfully ignorant happy times.