Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents::Several state governors are fighting fear mongering as they attempt to reduce transportation emissions in their states.

  • jmp242
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    11 months ago

    I only know what people tell me about EVs, I’ve never had one. You’re the first and only person to claim I can charge an EV in 15 minutes. Where can I do that?

    The last time I rented a car was in the UK about 2 months ago. It was for exactly 1 week, which is actually a little light for most of my trips in the US, and cost about 1000 GBP before insurance for an automatic (I don’t drive stick). In the US, when I’ve looked up car rentals just now, a fullsize SUV for my road trip coming up, return to the same place, was 1,303.99 before insurance. A Midsize that we’d just squeeze into like my owned Outback was $770 before insurance (on Kyak.com - feel free to point me to better places to search). I’d say that’s averaging $1,000.

    I’m aware I didn’t specify the ICE cars I’m talking about in this post, that was in another one. I’ll admit, if I was going to want a Tesla 3 size car (which doesn’t work for me for many other reasons), I could rent an ICE for more like $540 before insurance. The reason a Tesla3 size car doesn’t work is my road trips are 3-5 people, with luggage for a week or more, plus their hobby large backpacks. We also have a crosstrek and we literally packed it full for 3 people, and the Outback was uncomfortably full with 5 people. So I’d figure I’d need the cargo capacity of a full SUV for 5 and midsize SUV for 3.