@mhoye

1. My garage is on the opposite side of my house from my electrical panel.

2. My electrical panel is full.

3. Installing a car charger would involve upgrading the feed from the street to support the extra 50A circuit.

4. If you found a qualified, licensed electrician to do that job for $700 including the cost of the charger, please give me his name, because he's the cheapest electrician I've ever heard of.

@jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye When I do road trips I do straight through trips. (half of my annual mileage is my summer beach trip, and I usually do it in a single drive with a 10 minute gas break.

530 miles in about 6 hours. Can't do that in an electric.

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye

You would need maybe two charge stops. So it would take 40 minutes total, 30 additional minutes.

Definitely sounds like a dealbreaker to me.

@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye sure, if you’re driving a Leaf or something.

300 miles and 75% fast charge has become roughly standard.

You charge to 200 at 250 and 450 miles, and roll into the beach with 120 miles in the battery.

@malwareminigun but a bigger battery will still charge quickly to 75% (my car has a bigger battery since it’s heavy).

Smaller batteries will cut down the charge stop time to under 20 minutes, no?

The takeaway is really: yes, it’s a little slower. But often that just doesn’t really matter; sometimes it does.