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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
It’s very likely that EVs don’t do what YOU need them to do…yet.
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Thats exactly what I said. They dont and they wont in the foreseeable future.
I take quite a few trips requiring at least 1 refill on gas. No thanks to waiting for a recharge. Plenty of people are good with taking breaks and walking around or getting a meal and thats their business.
Having to plan on the car being on the home charger for hours to avoid the gas station even puttering on short trips still means the EV is down longer than the ICE for fueling/charging purposes. Plus, at home charging takes way way longer than pumping gas. The only crutch for that is having 480 3-ph ran to your house to power a 30KW charger.
Throttle house didnt run a HPDE event. There isnt an EV I know of that can do that for all kinds of reasons. I suspect by the end of the first 1/2 hour session, IF it made it to the end, it would be severely discharged and no longer competitive.
As you said, the government seems bent on forcing people into these cars and they're doing it under false pretenses. EV's arent going to save the world, they arent the green solution that the propaganda sells them to be, and they are not a practical replacement for people making long distance trips or engaging in HPDE.