OrientExpress
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I’m glad to hear that you guys acknowledge the root challenges for BEVs today.
Going forward things will absolutely improve, but today all BEVs have become a surprising disappointment for new BEV owners when it comes to long distance travel. 150-200 miles seems to be the limit of all BEVs, especially Tesla M3s on long trips regardless of their stated ranges.
One of my colleagues just came off of a round-trip from the Bay Area to Denver with 3 passengers and cargo and back where the average speed of traffic on the interstates was 75-80 mph. He averaged about 180 miles/2 hours between charges that lasted about 20-30 minutes each. But he is not unique, every day I am seeing more and more new Tesla drivers world-wide that are complaining with similar experiences.
It does not seem to matter if the charge session is 120miles/15 minutes or 200 miles/30 minutes, it’s still inferior to the average ICE econobox or SUV.
Fortunately long distance travel in BEVs still in the minority of use cases. The Supercharger network as with EVgo and EA are still a patchwork of predominantly lower speed superchargers with the more powerful ones few and far in between. In my friends Denver trip he told me that the superchargers were almost all the older ones, especially out in the I80 boondocks in Nevada, Utah Wyoming and north Colorado.
There is certainly a lot of grandstanding about future technology direction, and I am confident that it will pan out, but it will most certainly take longer than advertised.
Going forward things will absolutely improve, but today all BEVs have become a surprising disappointment for new BEV owners when it comes to long distance travel. 150-200 miles seems to be the limit of all BEVs, especially Tesla M3s on long trips regardless of their stated ranges.
One of my colleagues just came off of a round-trip from the Bay Area to Denver with 3 passengers and cargo and back where the average speed of traffic on the interstates was 75-80 mph. He averaged about 180 miles/2 hours between charges that lasted about 20-30 minutes each. But he is not unique, every day I am seeing more and more new Tesla drivers world-wide that are complaining with similar experiences.
It does not seem to matter if the charge session is 120miles/15 minutes or 200 miles/30 minutes, it’s still inferior to the average ICE econobox or SUV.
Fortunately long distance travel in BEVs still in the minority of use cases. The Supercharger network as with EVgo and EA are still a patchwork of predominantly lower speed superchargers with the more powerful ones few and far in between. In my friends Denver trip he told me that the superchargers were almost all the older ones, especially out in the I80 boondocks in Nevada, Utah Wyoming and north Colorado.
There is certainly a lot of grandstanding about future technology direction, and I am confident that it will pan out, but it will most certainly take longer than advertised.