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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Only 1% of EV Drivers Would Go Back to a Gas Car* (cleantechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not my experience at all, my EV has an even smaller range and we just did 1300km across Europe to come visit the family for Christmas, yes it was a bit of extra break times with the low-ish range of my e208 (340km official, much much less real range on highway in winter). There's so many chargers now you can definitely avoid full ones, apps show you if it's full before you get there. But I never had it yet that it was completely full/had to wait. Charging time always super quick and by the time we walk to the shops, toilet break and get a coffee we're good to go, sometimes we take more time than the car need when the little one needs to play. For the rest of the time there's always chargers nearby and in every day driving I never feel range anxiety, I do wish I had an extra 30min highway time before charging which I think I'll have in the summer. I think if you'd have one of the newer EVs with even faster charging and insane range I don't see how you could struggle at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome to Canada, the world isn't the same all over. Winter where we're at means -30° and your range becomes shit no matter what you drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes cold does affect range and needs to be taken into account. But I have a family member that drives a Hyundai Kona for a 1h highway commute in Quebec, drives it back and forth without charging there all through the harsh Québec winter, charging it at home with that sweet clean hydro electricity. Her colleague drives a Tesla. Sure seems EVs still work there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow! 1h in traffic! 😱

250km straight without a charging station, you need a car with a 500km range in the summer to reliably make it though with the heater set to the bare minimum so the windows don't become covered in ice.

I never said they don't work at all and my mother drives her 50km daily commute on electricity no problem, but we have places in our province that are just completely empty for distances you don't see in Europe because of the density.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah no for sure if you're anywhere further north it gets real sparse and I get that for those situations it's probably not realistic, 250km no mans land definitely would require careful planning even in a recent EV in Canadian winter but also most the pop doesn't live there or face that issue, also most families have two vehicles or more so one of them can be electric fire exemple, perfect is the enemy of good. The other comment was talking about Europe so I responded on that since that's where I drive my EV.