I drove a non Tesla EV from Cairns to Sydney over a few days. It was pretty easy.
The car planned the journey out for me. This included what chargers to use (which plug etc), how congested they were, rate of charge, cost etc.
But it did take time. Each stop was 10-20 mins instead of 5 that I normally would have with fuel. Also the cost wasn’t that much cheaper due to all the highway driving (no Regen braking when you do 110kph for two hours non stop) - I worked it out it was $4 cheaper than petrol.
I could have gone slower (80kph instead of 110), and not used superchargers (10 mins vs an hour)… But then what’s the point
the charging is the big issue, near no where to charge cars (unless you work for the city council then you have charging available … funny that).
Prices are still way to high, we want to replace one of our cars with an EV but by the timer we get a charger setup and buy the actual car we could buy EC cars multiple times over.
Be nice if this was a viable option in Rural Area’s
The fact that modern EVs have 400+ km range instead of 160km helps, but charging networks still have some big gaps that need filled in.
Though it’s possible to drive from Cairns in QLD to Adelaide now using fast chargers, even in a non-Tesla, so progress is being made.
Yep.
I drove a non Tesla EV from Cairns to Sydney over a few days. It was pretty easy.
The car planned the journey out for me. This included what chargers to use (which plug etc), how congested they were, rate of charge, cost etc.
But it did take time. Each stop was 10-20 mins instead of 5 that I normally would have with fuel. Also the cost wasn’t that much cheaper due to all the highway driving (no Regen braking when you do 110kph for two hours non stop) - I worked it out it was $4 cheaper than petrol.
I could have gone slower (80kph instead of 110), and not used superchargers (10 mins vs an hour)… But then what’s the point
the charging is the big issue, near no where to charge cars (unless you work for the city council then you have charging available … funny that).
Prices are still way to high, we want to replace one of our cars with an EV but by the timer we get a charger setup and buy the actual car we could buy EC cars multiple times over.
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