5 or 10 minutes charging? How? We're talking 35 minutes charging.

 

Haha, you wouldn't be passing me Lol . I drive all my EV's exactly as I would a normal car....foot hard on the peda 🤣. I wish you could see the faces on people driving "sports cars" who have trouble keeping up, especially on the steep inclines. I average about 80 mph on trips. I don't go any faster than that because than it becomes unsafe, and I don't want to get a speeding ticket

 

You may be bragging a little bit. Lol

Your fancy EQS has two batteries?

 

How long are the trips you're taking?

 

Not when you are travelling. The mapping software is optimized in getting you to your destination fast, so it will have you charge enough with a sufficient buffer. For example when I travel to SoCal (390 miles one way) I will make 2 stops, one is 10 minutes, the second is usually around 12 minutes. I get to my destination usually with about 18 percent SoC left. 35 minutes is if you charge all the way to 90 percent

 

Usually 7 to 7 and half hours door to door, but depends on traffic, how early I leave etc

 

Why not just charge a few more minutes and get it back up there?

I never let my tank get below 1/2 because I fear being on the highway in a traffic jam and running out of gas.

 

You're living in a world where there are chargers everywhere lol. Here, thats impossible. There are maybe 2-3 fast charging options along an entire 350 mile trip. For me to drive a 350 mile trip I need to stop for a solid 35 minutes and charge.

SoCal is not an example of what the charging infrastructure looks like in the rest of the world...

 

You actually save more time doing quick charges, believe it or not. The charging curve (or charging speed) begins to drop after 60 percent, and hits a cliff nearing 80 percent.

I actually do charge more than recommended by the mapping software. If it says 10 minutes, I do 15 minutes, although I really don't have to

 

I agree. I'm talking purely about my experiences. Others have to go by the reality of where they live, how good infrastructure in their area is etc

 

Nope, can't do that, even if I had a gas car with a 500 mile range. We only did trips like that when my kids were small and we travelled at night

 

I drove 400 miles back from Albany with my 8 year old twins and only stopped one time for fuel. It was actually incredible...they're finally old enough that we don't need to stop

 

I have to stop at least once or twice to stretch my legs, use the bathroom. The only time we did straight stretches were when the kids were little, they would do the Simpson thing: "Are we there yet?" every 5 minutes, so we would leave at night and just make one stop for gas/bathroom. I can't under normal circumstances sit in a car for more than 2 and half, 3 hours tops. If it's more than 500 miles, I just fly

 

This is how fast we drive our EV's on trips

 

We used to travel at night too, but nowadays I get too tired to do that safely.

Stopping to use the bathroom is one thing, but stopping for 35 minutes is another.