There are no standards. You have to sign up for a different charging service by region, download an app. You show up you don’t know if the chargers are occupied or worse broken with no plans to ever repair, b/c YMMV on if the company actually maintains their chargers. You have to do all your route planning beforehand and hope when you show up charging is available, and you might be stuck waiting around. Or stuck downloading an app. Or hoping you have enough charge to get to the next charging station. Tesla to their credit directs you to the cheapest, available chargers. Does all the route planning. Preconditions your battery. With a Tesla a road trip doesn’t take any longer than a gas vehicle. At the end of the day it’s a good American company with talented engineers, and I look forward to supporting them again someday after they lose the Nazi.
With a Tesla a road trip doesn’t take any longer than a gas vehicle.
Ehhhhh, yeah it does. Especially if you have to charge more than once, and also want to arrive at your destination with a useable charge. Mind you, I don't really care too much about the extra time, but it's nowhere near as fast as gassing up and going.
lol, I have children. We’re stopping every 2-3 hours anyway, so the 10-15 minutes doesn’t feel any different then stopping at a gas station and having to deal with bathroom/snack breaks.
I hear ya. But it's still a longer trip than an ICE. especially when the kiddos can figure out how to hold it, and you need 60% charge at your destination. Again, doesn't really bother me, but let's be real. If you don't have little kids (or a microscopic bladder yourself), it's significantly longer than driving a gas vehicle.
This is part of the reason why I'm annoyed that the President issued an Executive Order undoing all the Biden-era grants to put in standardized chargers. The idea was to make charging easier for everyone.
I think it was done to help the EV industry generally by encouraging people to buy EVs, which we want to do because of climate change and because fossil fuels are not good for air quality/human health.
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u/dubbfoolio 24d ago
There are no standards. You have to sign up for a different charging service by region, download an app. You show up you don’t know if the chargers are occupied or worse broken with no plans to ever repair, b/c YMMV on if the company actually maintains their chargers. You have to do all your route planning beforehand and hope when you show up charging is available, and you might be stuck waiting around. Or stuck downloading an app. Or hoping you have enough charge to get to the next charging station. Tesla to their credit directs you to the cheapest, available chargers. Does all the route planning. Preconditions your battery. With a Tesla a road trip doesn’t take any longer than a gas vehicle. At the end of the day it’s a good American company with talented engineers, and I look forward to supporting them again someday after they lose the Nazi.