You own a gas (or diesel) vehicle that can do 800 miles in a single shot? I’m impressed.

Tesla could very likely make all of those trips just fine with a short stop to charge. I’m guessing your father makes the 360 mile trip without a single stop?

Fair point. Can’t make it right now on the Bolt without having to stop and charge for awhile (6 to 8 hours) at a public L2 station. Could easily make it in a Tesla though - plenty of Superchargers along the route. If you owned the Bolt you could take the fuel savings and rent a car for the trip?

Have you looked at Plugshare.com? Take a look. The charging options may surprise you.

And yet, solar power installations are starting to undercut fossil fuel generation in price, particularly coal.

If I have a Bolt (with 238 miles of range), and drove to work and back (40 mile round trip), I’d be down to 198 miles. Lets say, I come home, plug in for 30 min, and then get a call that I need to drive somewhere 90 min (call it 90 miles away) in an emergency. 30 min of 30 Amp charging replenished 15 miles of range.…

How long do you consider your short trips to be?

Yes, they are. Spend some time reading through the documentation. Its easier and cheaper than the EPA originally thought it would be (back in 2010) when the automakers all signed on.

How far do your anomalous tasks take you?

You can if you own a longer range BEV. Bolt has 238 miles of range (not to mention any of the Teslas). Pretty easy to wake up with a full tank every morning.

Takes me 20 seconds to plug my car in every night, and I wake up to full tank every morning. What’s your point?

You drive 300+ miles every day? How long does your vehicle sit out your house when you sleep?

I don’t know about you, but I wake up to a full car every morning. 93 miles of range and I’ve still been able to put 26,000 miles on the car in its first 19 months.

Except that if you spent some time reading what is actually going on, you’d realize that these rules were originally put into place for the 2012 to 2025MYs. This review was put in place to look at the feasibility of the regulations and determine whether or not they were still feasible. EPA, through extensive modeling,…