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An EV is a pretty good place to be in those situations. For example. If we select camp mode on our car it will keep us toasty warm (or cool in summer) and we can watch Netflix on the screen. The car will use about 18 to 22 percent of the battery in 24 hours. You could probably sit there for days. An EV doesn’t use much power just sitting there. It’s the motive forces that suck back the power.
No degradation to the battery in those cold temps?
Yah for sure. Up until today we have been hanging around minus 20 to minus 24 at night and a whack of snow. Ugh. We count on losing about 35 -40 percent of range at those temps although it’s actually probably a little less cause everybody slows down when the roads are bad. Our most common road trip is 470 kilometres. In summer we tend to take a 10 or 15 minute pee and coffee refill and Supercharge break. In winter that break is 10 minutes longer or we’ll just stop for an extra 10 or 15 minutes at another supercharger. The car is pretty good at predicting all this stuff as long as you use the navigation feature. It’s pretty seemless.
Yah. That all could happen. But as they pointed out on the news report, days long snaffus like this are rare. We have been in a few road closures with our EV, but we know how to travel in the winter. Stay on the upper half of your battery (or gas tank) carry blankets, candles, food, water, a shovel or two, toilet paper, change of clothes. That’s just how we roll up north. As well, DC fast chargers are already common and getting more common here. The charging thing would work itself out. We have never had to wait for a charger yet. Everyplace is different of course. I’m sure a 24 hour event like that wouldn’t be any fun but I would still rather be in an electric vehicle if it happened.
I think the difference is you have experience, and the rest of us don't. I am still Leary too, but reading your posts does enlightened me to what is possible.
And unfortunately I know nothing about leasing a car. There are also so many more brands showing up on the market although apparently finding some of them on lots is still hard. Meh. That will get better too.
Yah. And for us we only have one vehicle so it needs to do everything. But in our case it’s pretty easy for an electric vehicle to cover it all because our demands are pretty light. Our most common road trip is 470 kilometres in a day. And very worst case sceenario we have to make the return trip the same day so around 950 total round trip. (Rare) Pretty easy in an EV, especially if you don’t have to tow.
That is the attraction of EV...nothing like the acceleration.Buy what you like and fits your budget and then drive it like you stole it.
True. People think people buy EV’s for environmental reasons. That may happen to some degree. But the big reason is the test drive. It’s pretty much over after that.
