GRA
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WetEV said:GRA said:Seeing as how I limited where I drove to the radius of the car, as noted a longer range just boosts the useful radius. Doesn't change how long it takes me to replenish range from a low SoC.WetEV said:Could happen with any size battery and any rate of charge. I might do a 180 mile drive in the e-tron and return home, and need to take another 180 mile drive. Right. The larger the battery and the higher the rate of charge, the less likely this would ever happen.
IF your goal is to "prove" that L1 isn't going to work, then driving the car to empty and not being able to take another trip is a good plan.
"Driving the radius" is a bad idea, most of the time.
My goal that week was to use a BEV as if it were my only car in my situationtaking me to the places I use a car to get to, and see how that worked. Like the english admiral Jacky Fisher, I believe that the best scale for an experiment is 12 inches to the foot. The answer was that it was much too limiting. More range, more and faster charging infrastructure reduce the limitations, but still not enough for me given my heavily-skewed usage profile of mainly long trips. You have agreed in the past that's the case.
WetEV said:GRA said:Indeed, the issue is how much you need to drive the next day.
With a small battery relative to daily use, of course. With a larger battery, there is more flexibility for spontaneous driving.
Which is what I wrote, so I don't see any disagreement.
WetEV said:GRA said:Was the EVSE and install free, or did you have to pay anything?
Free to me. Employer suggested, wasn't all my decision.