I just learnt this in the last few months.

We got a Rav4 Prime and I had only put gas in it for the first time for our normal drive two weeks ago.

What a pain in the ass and it was only a few minutes for the detour.

And the smell.

Do you not have electric outlets at home?

I wouldn't recommend an EV to anyone that can't charge at home. Unfortunately, that excludes most people in apartments.

this is... an interesting argument. as an EV driver, you're essentially saying 'I want giant signs and chargers on every corner' which is how you'd find them without needing a map. this seems unlikely to really ever happen because we simply have better options now, but I guess we'll see.

You might have to worry about that, like at most, once a month, for going places where you wouldn't already have been familiar with charging places including backups if one is closed.

Anecdotally, this is not really the case any more in Sweden. There's a fully sufficient amount of fast chargers along the road for all the road trips I participate in on a regular enough basis.

Basically this is a problem that goes away as EVs continue to get adopted

I just use a better route planner and with ionna building out new good chargers I never worry on trips, I make the same 5 hours trip almost every 2 months and the only time I got worried was when my normal spot was filled and took a chance on a circle k charger and they don't accept payment on the machine. Thankfully they are getting replaced.

BC Hydro has been very good about adding high speed chargers on all the hwy routes and many gas stations also have added chargers. It keeps getting easier to use an EV although 90% of my charging is at home.
I'm old enough to remember when driving long distances in an ICE car had some of the same range anxiety due to low milage and small tanks, which is why there are abandoned gas stations all over the place. Imagine having as many charging stations around as there are, or were, gas stations?

I just took a decent trip in mine. It was fine.

Rented an EV once on a vacation. First time ever with an EV. Intentionally to force myself to learn. I spent the nights on that trip researching chargers and looking for charge stations on my path next day that can do fast charging. Definitely there was a bit of range anxiety throughout and slightly inconvenienced. But it was agood learning experience. Would do it again 😀

I managed to hit some v4 superchargers on my most recent trip, and 20 minutes from 14-78% was refreshing.

Convenience stores are called that because you are already getting gas anyway, so they provide the convenience of grabbing a couple things while you're stopped

The problem is the gas is what brings people into the convenience stores.

Seems like GM is the actual problem

I've had serpentine belts fail on 3 old beaters, sure, but in each case I could drive for a while after that at least (enough to get home in two cases, one was too far from home but I got to where I needed to go and then got towed and fixed at friend's workshop, I already had the belt in the car, just hadn't changed it yet). But these were all nearly 20 year old cars. And could've easily been prevented by me not being too cheap to spend 100 euros on a new belt, tensioner and pulleys - however, each of those happened when I was way too broke to get a lease on a brand new EV, so 100 euros on a belt kit was also an expense I didn't want without knowing first that I do indeed need it.

Probably. Never happened to me though. I had to call assistance for that battery which is a known issue in EV6. Which also happens to be a 3 or maybe 4 years old car - typically not within a normal failure range.

That’s exactly why I was pissed. Apparently it’s also « just » a regulatory safety feature that the system must detect the 12v before switching to the main battery…

It was not fun being stranded after midnight in a boat ramp until 2am…