The only thing wrong there is the charge time at the truck stop. The recharge time is faster than you could eat the noon special and have a slice of pie. Most new EV’s have a 15-30 minute recharge time on a DC fast charger.
With a 500 mile range, you could go, stay overnight, and drive back without charging at all.
I'm sorry...I don't mean to insult anyone.
Now...follow my logic here (you will need paper, pencil, calculator).
Assume we want to go from home (S.Centl Va) to Paradise Pennsylvania. That's 340 miles each way. As you can see the closest charging station is in Lancaster. Behind Sheetz. We go by there on Rt. 30, but we do not eat at Sheetz or truck stops! Ever!
Picture is screenshot just now , EV charging stations.
So 500 mile range less 340 = 160 miles. Since our mini vacation will be staying a week, driving the area, time to charge.
So here we sit at a Sheetz for 20 minutes.
Now the fun...do the math: The EV recharge cost works out to $0.088/mile.
Now, gas at $2.98/gal, 35 mph, 15 gallons gives 525 mile range and costs $0.085/mile.
So we stay a week, EV gets low...uh oh...back to Lancaster but we're headed opposite direction.
"With a 500 mile range, you could go, stay overnight, and drive back without charging at all."
Really?!? What kind of vacation is that? I've used 340m of the 500 just getting there!!!
This is at home installation:
"The cost of a single port EVSE unit ranges from $300-$1,500 for Level 1, $400-$6,500 for Level 2, and $10,000-$40,000 for DC fast charging. Installation costs vary greatly from site to site with a ballpark cost range of $0-$3,000 for Level 1, $600- $12,700 for Level 2, and $4,000-$51,000 for DC fast charging."
Bottom line, home to grocery or other store, plug in Level 1 overnight charger at home I can understand...IF...power company doesn't start putting HV towers everywhere...IF the EV car is cheap, IF batteries are cheap. Otherwise I wouldn't have one.
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