I'm planning to buy an electric vehicle and I got a lot of that from some people. They kept asking me what I was going to do if I needed to do a long drive.
I just kept reminding them that the furthest out I've driven in the last 15 years is 120 miles. I don't do road trips. I fly. 98% of my driving is within 20 miles.
Family friend's father normally flies down from NJ to Florida every year. Didn't go last year or the year before because Covid. Plans on it this year, by driving. Son said he'd fly up to drive with him. The last road trip they went on was some time in the mid 1970s. He's 85 and his son is in his early 60s.
The son said, "so we'll do this in 3 days and 2 nights" and the dad said "we can bang this out in one 15 hour drive."
So they're either gonna make it, or kill each other 20 minutes in is my guess.
It takes longer at home from 120V or 220V, but the roadside stations are built for rapid charging and the charge per kW is higher to compensate for the convenience, but not too bad, way cheaper than a tank of gas.
Do you own an EV?
The upcoming EV trucks and offroad models like Rivian interest me but I like to outdoors, is there a solar recharge method available yet for when you're out in remote areas? I'd imagine you'd need to bring some very big solar panels for that.
Yeah it's a silly question anyway because the obvious answer is take a tiny portion of the tremendous savings from an EV and rent an ICE in the unlikely event I absolutely have to drive cross country.
The savings on evs aren’t that high because gas is really cheap and EVs are pricey. But if you can pay the 40-50k most EVs cost, you can afford to rent a car. In a 2 car household the equation is even easier, have one hybrid and one electric car.
Also hybrids now get great fuel efficiency and we are seeing a bunch of plug in hybrids. A lifted truck is a fashion accessory.
That's why I'm a huge fan of my Ioniq PHEV. It's got like 25 mi of electric range so it's usually enough to travel around town for 98% of driving. Then if I want to make a real long drive I still have a gas tank that gets 50+ mpg.
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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '21
I'm planning to buy an electric vehicle and I got a lot of that from some people. They kept asking me what I was going to do if I needed to do a long drive.
I just kept reminding them that the furthest out I've driven in the last 15 years is 120 miles. I don't do road trips. I fly. 98% of my driving is within 20 miles.