dbsb3233
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- TimCO
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While I have yet to drive a BEV yet, every one of those things are the same things I've considered too. I know many people are in different situations, and have different tolerances and preferences and motivations. For some a BEV on a long road trip may fit them fine. But that's gotta be a pretty small%. For nearly everyone else there are clear compromises (as you described) relative to a comparable ICE vehicle.Yep, those that say traveling in a tesla is easy or better as ICE are only kidding themselves. I sure did love driving 3 hours then having to stop and charge for 45 minutes on road trips, having to eat at places that had L2 charging and waiting for two hours there, and constantly worrying about where my next supercharging station is.
Every single road trip I brought an extension cord and my mobile connector. There were many places I stayed I had to run a 50ft extension cord on 120V outlets to charge just so I could drive around that area the next day.
With My Raptor, I can drive it 12 hours straight before stopping at a pump. Not only that, I don't even worry about running it down to 5 miles left in the tank. Do that in an electric car, and your risking the range estimation meter being off and running out. There are stories of those with 10 miles left and car shuts down with EV's.
If my truck does run out of gas, I can call a local wrecker to bring me a gallon. Can't do that with EV's, you're going to get towed; possibly taking hours to the nearest charger/L2. You could stomach a wall outlet and sit for two to three hours. Those are serious concerns that I only started having once I owned the car. Didn't think about it until then.
I wholly get some people accepting those compromises and saying they're willing to deal with them. That's fine. What I don't get is the failure to acknowledge the obvious compromises.
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