Lasareath said:
I guess I joined the wrong forum. Where's EV forum with the forward thinking EV drivers!?!!!
Right now I have to use my frigin ICE car twice a month to go to two clients that are 150 mile round trip.
I want a QC's on the garden state parkway so I can do it in my leaf. I don't want to keep my ICE for two damn clients.
I just don't understand why anybody would think it would be a bad idea to have QC's on highways.
It just doesn't make sense to me.
I'm not planning to drive to Florida from NJ. That would be stupid. I just want to extend my range that little bit.
Clue-less people. I guess the next generation will get it right. I was born too early.
Plenty of forward-thinking EV drivers here, but most of them have had their BEVs long enough to get past the 'Gee, I want to use it for everything' stage and accept what the cars are realistically practical for now. And also what's economic. Charging providers are still struggling to figure out how to make QC'ing pay, so the last thing we need is to install a bunch of them in places that almost no one would ever use because they value their time. Nor do we need to provide any more hostages to the anti-EV blogosphere.
Take a look at the BC2BC Rally that Tony ran: 1,500 miles in 9 days, or an average of just 167 miles/day. To be sure there were some down days in there so it could have been done several days faster, but it's not a practical use of a BEV if you place a value on your time - you could easily do that in two days solo in an ICE (1.5 days if you were in a hurry), if you just wanted to get to your destination.
For QCs to make any sense for long road trips, the cars themselves need more range. The Tesla S has it. The RAV4EV is at the low end of the necessary range, and it cries out for QC capability to make shorter road trips practical. None of the sub-$40k MSRP cars has enough range to be practical for anything beyond a single enroute QC to extend their daily radius, if the destination rather than the journey is what's important to you.
You're fairly new here. Believe me, your enthusiasm for boosting infrastructure and using BEVs for everything was common here in the early days. Once you see how inconvenient using the car is for trips beyond about 125-150 miles radius, I expect you'll realize why most of the people here aren't ready to push this. But if someone were to start a petition to install QCs liberally around the 10 best metropolitan areas for LEAF sales, well, they'd all be on board:
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As it happens, Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 are all fairly well covered by QCs, so we need to concentrate right now on #s 3, 6, 9 and 10 while filling in some gaps in the first group.