Most of the time on here I’m the annoying pro EV guy but honestly I kind of buy the EV story, especially if it’s a few years old. The best guess is it was Massie who had a bad trip one time in his Model S.

EV Infrastructure away from the coasts isn’t dense or well maintained, so a failed DCFC could end with trying to…

you don’t even have to leave the mustang family! :) 

yeah at the launch the chief engineer was pretty emphatic that it’s a system built for power, not fuel economy.

They have the highlander and (gasp) Sienna for those buyers. 

Correction: They did go to Meridian but I’m not sure how they ended up at the Mercedes sealer instead of the greenlots charger. 

They basically knowingly went through all of that to cut 40 miles off the trip to Memphis

The thing is they needed a gap that exceeded the range of the car to make this work. The plugshare map shows the highways a bit better, the map still looks a bit sparser than reality since it doesn’t render every charger at this zoom (there’s no gap in toledo or Miami for example).

Also note the author later said on…

You have done that yourself dot jpg

I’d honestly have bought it if they’d just punched in google maps and Leeroy Jenkins’d it. That would’ve sent them on that route.

But once you say you’re savvy enough to plan overnight charges the needle on my BS detector starts twitching.

Yeah it’s a little Sus that this is basically the only big gap like that left along an interstate unless you’re going up to north Dakota (they’re a little behind Tesla but I bet next year this article would be very different)

This actually wasn’t an Opinion piece.
But i agree, Opinion should largely be treated like speculative fiction in any paper.

In the article the author said they meticulously planned using Plugshare, but also somehow didn’t filter for charger speed. Or just use ABRP.

Which makes it kind of amazing that they ran right into a 400 mile charging desert in the continental US when there was a parallel track that would’ve been fine. And chose the…

If your daily is a Model S why not? 

Nice price even if it does cost you $10-$15k in repairs.

What other 4 seat droptop would you get for high 40's to low 50's that’s this cool?

it’s a definite “don’t buy 1 if you can’t afford 2" car but it looks like something 3x the price. 

Hardly wasted. They’ve been able to get the feds to throw in >$400/kwh for adding larger batteries to existing hybrids at a time when BNEF’s survey says OEMs are buying packs for 1/2 to 1/3 of that. 

Someone deserves a bonus.

do they play the theme from 2001 a space odyssey when they roll it up for prospective buyers? 

I don’t think we’ll ever really solve overnight charging for people who don’t live in SFH’s since a lot of them don’t even have off street parking.

That’s why I’m an advocate for adding a lot more workplace charging. People generally own these cars to drive and park somewhere else for 8-10 hours. And during the day…

The thing is they’re not going to get all the NGDV’s in one lump in 2023 either. These things are going to be rolling off the line until 2030 if the current plan holds. I don’t really see the point on holding off on adding L2 chargers to their depots.

Even Amazon’s already starting to electrify their fleet. 

3rd gear: that works out to $70k per vehicle.

You can buy a ford eTransit today with more payload than these things for $25k less, and it doesn’t get 8.6 mpg with the AC on.

I’ve personally killed batteries this way so it seems pretty logical. Maybe those cars were always there parked their or their drivers had perished from carbon monoxide poisoning due to exhaust leaks.. who can really say.

But there’s a reason my local drive in has a well used jumper pack.