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EV Charging Doesn't Need to Be as Fast as Gas, Ionna CEO Says (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I think the issue is like trucks in the USA. People buy what they think they need not what they actually they need and then underutilize it.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    Speaking from embarassed experience, I live in the USA thought it would be OK for me to get a pickup truck because I literally do work in the trades. Even I underutilize it tbh, and I'm thinking about selling it. I mostly just drive it to and from work like any other car, and then move things around in the company vans, lol.

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  • [–] -4 points 19 hours ago* (5 children)

    You don't need it 99% of the time, but in that 1% when you need it, you really need it. 99% simply isn’t enough because that 1% is really important.

    Time on a road trip is way more important than time in regular drives. I don’t mind being 30min late getting back home from work, that happens all the time from traffic, but 30min late on a roadtrip means you’re missing daylight, or an appointment, or that restaurant you really wanted to try is closed. These are not imaginary hypotheticals, all of these situations have regularly happened to me even with gas cars.

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    This is fascinating to read because it's completely the opposite of how I think.

    If I was regularly 30 min late coming home from work I would scream. Nobody has time for that!

    30 min late on vacation? Who cares? You can't even plan any trip with that tight of tolerances, anyway. Too many factors beyond your control could delay you by more than 30 minutes, easily. As you say, this type of thing can happen even with gas cars, or trains, planes, boats, bicycles, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago* (1 child)

    Americans don't get much vacation time. Which makes what limited vacation time we do get much more precious. Losing 30min out of 365 days is a bummer, but losing 30min out of a 7 day vacation is worse. If you have the choice of spending an extra 30min at Walmart vs spending that 30min at the beach or sleeping in at the Hotel, which would you pick? That is exactly the trade off you make when choosing between a gas car and an EV on a road trip.

    As you say, this type of thing can happen even with gas cars, or trains, planes, boats, bicycles, etc.

    Yes, but it's worse with EVs. Why would I willingly make my experience worse on a vacation?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    If that's really how you feel, I implore you to slow down and enjoy the trip as much as the destination. Who cares about an extra thirty minutes if you're basically enjoying all of them. And you're wasting much more of your vacation than thirty minutes if you hate the whole time you're travelling. Perhaps you have a perspective issue, more than a propellant issue.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    And that 1% of the time is where renting is more effective perhaps even moreso with increasing gas costs

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago

    While that's a nice and logical thought, the fact is renting a car for a vacation adds price to the vacation and if youre already committed to a gigantic payment for a new car, renting a car for a trip is a non-starter for many people.

    Not saying either is right or wrong. Everyone has to make their own value judgements for themselves.

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