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by cameldrv
2631 days ago
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Yeah but that's neglecting the time it takes to plug and unplug your car every night/morning. I'd say it takes about 15-30 sec for each action. If you do this once per day to make sure you're topped off, and you drive 30 miles per day, you get about 50 miles of charge per minute of your time. A typical gas pump fills at 9 gallons per minute, plus 2-3 minutes to pull into the pump, swipe your credit card, etc. If you have a 15 gallon tank and get 30 mpg, that's about 5 minutes for about 450 miles, or about 90 miles per minute of your time. Tesla should start selling their robot charging snake thing to aleviate this. |
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Also, people calculating road trip "stop time" seem to forget that when you leave on a multi-day roadtrip, there's usually a oh-crap-I-haven't-changed-my-oil-in-forever stop, and a "fill up before I get on the road" stop. Both of which are not needed before you take off with an EV. You'll leave on your with a full "tank" without the "lets gas up for the trip" stop, and when you return, you again have a full tank the next day without the "damn I'm empty and have work tomorrow so better fill up again" stop.