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The Electric Revolution

If I were to get a second car, EV would definitely be on the list, but we only have one car and I just can't see having only one car and it be an EV. We are going to drive for about 8 hours two days from now, I'd hate to take the chance on not find a fast charger if we need it.
 
ahhell said:
If I were to get a second car, EV would definitely be on the list, but we only have one car and I just can't see having only one car and it be an EV. We are going to drive for about 8 hours two days from now, I'd hate to take the chance on not find a fast charger if we need it.
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I'm not sure where you live. But chargers are located just about everywhere today you can download multiple apps for your phone that will tell you where almost all of them are. That said there definitely can be challenges.

But I get the concern. I have a close friend that owns a hair salon in Bellevue, Washington and another in Bend Oregon. He has homes in both places. It's a 6 to 8 hour drive depending on traffic.(340 miles). He used to drive a Corvette, now a Tesla. He could easily make a non-stop in the Vette. But he is now on his third Tesla. He still stops for a charge once on the drive, but now it's because he wants to, not because he has to.
 
Garbage trucks are absolutely ideal for electrification.

They drive short, fixed, local, routes. (So their journey is entirely known and predictable.)

Their work is almost entirely stop start.

The stopping part is ideal for regeneration, and the starting part is ideal for the 'maximum torque at zero' of electric motors.

:)
 
acbytesla said:
I'm not sure where you live. But chargers are located just about everywhere today you can download multiple apps for your phone that will tell you where almost all of them are. That said there definitely can be challenges.

But I get the concern. I have a close friend that owns a hair salon in Bellevue, Washington and another in Bend Oregon. He has homes in both places. It's a 6 to 8 hour drive depending on traffic.(340 miles). He used to drive a Corvette, now a Tesla. He could easily make a non-stop in the Vette. But he is now on his third Tesla. He still stops for a charge once on the drive, but now it's because he wants to, not because he has to.
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Its more about when, like now when we go on a road trip, there may be plenty of chargers in Wyoming and S. Dakota, on the other hand, I know there plenty of gas stations and its below freezing.
 
ahhell said:
Its more about when, like now when we go on a road trip, there may be plenty of chargers in Wyoming and S. Dakota, on the other hand, I know there plenty of gas stations and its below freezing.
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I get it.
 
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