I was watching this person’s videos on the matter. And was wondering what your experience has been with EVs and your opinion on the different connectors?
As an electric car owner:
- We need more fast chargers on Interstates. Preferably at places travelers would want to stop for thirty minutes. Places like Starbucks or McDonalds. NOT gas stations or WalMart. People just want somewhere clean they can use the rest room and grab a bite or drink while they wait for the charger to finish.
- If you are living in a house or duplex, you don’t need a 240v charger. Plugging your car into a normal outlet overnight is usually enough to add 40 miles back onto the car.
- The Tesla connector feels like the right choice. I’m glad the industry settled on it in North America. It’s much lighter and easier to handle.
That just means you would need a level 2 charger for your house instead of the 120v ones.
Pointlessly politicized. They are metal tools designed to move people around. I can’t imagine how anyone thinks that the future of private transportation isn’t EVs. That being said, they’re far from the savior against climate change that many people think they are. The only way to sustainably move forward is with public investment in public mass transportation.
They are a step in the right direction, though.
Best car I ever had, so much nicer to drive than any deisel or petrol car I ever drove, and much faster. Second hand as usual. Cheap to run £4/wk vs £20/wk. I charge it at home at night when the electricity is cheap because it’s all wind power at that time of night. Even charging on long journeys is cheaper than fossil fuels.
I don’t like to drive for too long without a proper break anyway so it hasn’t made much difference to us. I just plan it so that 250-300 miles into the journey is early lunch or tea time when we go on holiday. In the UK, the public chargers are pretty good and there’s loads of them. You want to arrive early for lunch if you’re at a motorway services because they get busy, but if you go for a macdonalds or shopping centre, you’ll be fine.
The rest of the year, who cares about range or charging or anything? Just plug it in when you get home if it gets a bit low, and the car’s timer starts the charge when the tariff switches to cheap night electricity. You never need to go to a petrol station again.
Seriously, best car ever. Smooth, FAST and good looking. Makes me happy every day.
I haven’t watched the video sorry. I watched some but it’s an hour long, and I couldn’t find the section about connector types. But most people will charge at home 99% of the time. How long it takes or what plug you have then doesn’t matter.
My personal experience charging when out and about is that I have a car with a common connector and never have had to worry about if it’s supported. The charging stations normally support multiple types, and the apps that tell you where the charging stations are also tell you the connector types so you don’t waste your time.
But most people will charge at home 99% of the time.
Only about 65% of American households are owners.
I would charge at home if I could but since I rent and therefore can’t I pay 4x market rate for the electricity and have to take hours out of my day to do so.
The video addresses this. But they basically address it in a focus on what needs to change.
Regardless, not owning your home doesn’t prevent you from charging using a wall socket. More important is accessibility (whether you can get your car and your electricity to the same place), which can be a problem whether you own or not.
But there’s huge opportunity for things like charging at work, if only we embraced it.
I rent an apartment and the inability to park the car inside my apartment prevents me from charging using a wall socket.
I’ve driven several, they are all great, quiet, much cleaner, obviously much better for the environment, and can be continually improved, iiii like EVs.
It’s irritating that there are different connectors, but understandable since it’s a new innovating field, they’ll probably be widely standardized like the way gasoline is standardized for cars after the market is large enough.
