Road trips and charge ups

[BATTERIESRIT]

Getting my Mach-E within a month. One thing that amazes me is that folks are taking road trips and then spending so much time refueling. Will they be the ones flying by me at 85 miles an hour to recover the charging time? We will use our Mach-E as our town car and charge at home via our 110. It seems to me that the interstates have so many flyers that must really be in a hurry to get there. What are they going to do with an EV?

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[AllenXS]

So far I've been doing local trips and the 110 works okay. This Friday is the start of road tripping. Nervous yet very excited to cruise. Small trip first then longer.

 

[balthisar]

I'm just going to wait to see how the car reacts to high speed. In Michigan when posted at 75 mph, doing 84 mph is perfectly reasonable. Right now there aren't a whole lot of chargers in the rural areas where the posted speed is 75 mph. Still, most of the rest of the state is between 64 and 79 mph actual. Of course, this is only open road conditions. It defeats the purpose if there's congestion.

Most people aren't in a hurry; they're just having fun driving. Unless they're doing something dangerous, I tend to mind my own business and not judge them.

 

[milepost1]

Wish ford would make deal with tesla for their chargers. That is a huge advantage tesla has over all other EV's. With superchargers and able to use all the others also very few places you cant reach. ford is counting level 2 as chargers too, which they are, but not really viable on road trip.

 

[SteelMach]

Getting my Mach-E within a month. One thing that amazes me is that folks are taking road trips and then spending so much time refueling. Will they be the ones flying by me at 85 miles an hour to recover the charging time? We will use our Mach-E as our town car and charge at home via our 110. It seems to me that the interstates have so many flyers that must really be in a hurry to get there. What are they going to do with an EV?

My Mach-E is my road trip-mobile. I can't wait to get out and explore the world in it once it's safer to do so I hope to take it coast-to-coast. All I have is 110 at home, there's enough DCFCs as backups for emergencies that L2 doesn't make sense for me

 

[silverelan]

The DC recharge time is something I'm really curious about. Seems like most examples of MME cleanly recharging on road trips is ~40min 10% to 80%.

Should I be worried that my Mach-E's fast charging will be as obsolete in 2025 as the Bolt EV is now?

https://electrek.co/2021/03/03/hyun...arging-22-80-in-16-minutes-new-charging-king/

 

[TGIF]

The DC recharge time is something I'm really curious about. Seems like most examples of MME cleanly recharging on road trips is ~40min 10% to 80%.

Should I be worried that my Mach-E's fast charging will be as obsolete in 2025 as the Bolt EV is now?

https://electrek.co/2021/03/03/hyun...arging-22-80-in-16-minutes-new-charging-king/

I think there is that chance, certainly. Have you seen the Ioniq 5? It puts the ugh in ugly. I think the MME is an attractive car that is fun to drive. You don’t hear that said much about the Bolt. Battery tech will likely make great strides in the next 5-10 years. I’m thinking that the MME will either be something we trade in a few years to get better battery characteristics (range and recharge speed) but is also something we can keep for the long term as our second car for around town and non-road-trip driving.

 

[silverelan]

I think there is that chance, certainly. Have you seen the Ioniq 5? It puts the ugh in ugly. I think the MME is an attractive car that is fun to drive. You don’t hear that said much about the Bolt. Battery tech will likely make great strides in the next 5-10 years. I’m thinking that the MME will either be something we trade in a few years to get better battery characteristics (range and recharge speed) but is also something we can keep for the long term as our second car for around town and non-road-trip driving.

It seems like 30 minutes to go 10% to 80% for 400v-class EVs is the modern standard. ID4, Polestar 2, Toyota BZ4X, etc all target 30 minutes now with the Model Y the fastest of the 400v cars.

I'd like to know what the 21P22 does for the MME's charge times to 80% but that's still a mystery.

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