At an average speed of 50mph you'd be sitting behind the wheel of that car for 22 hours to go 1000 miles.
That's being generous, with gas fill-ups, bathroom and food stops when you're going 0mph it's nearly impossible to go 50mph on average for that long.
But I agree in principle, road trips would suck in an EV. However, for a daily driver that I don't have to take to the gas station and just charge at home it would be pretty neat.
Basically if I had an EV I'd need a second car for road trips.
Well drivers can switch off, I've gone on many mid way cross the nation road trips in a single day, averaging as high as 70mph once stops are accounted for, it's not that unusual.
Even in a Cannonball Run in 2006 where they try to go as fast as possible have the shortest refueling stops, pee in a diaper and reached speeds of 157mph. Their average speed was still 90mph. So that 70mph is quite doubtful unless you're reaching speeds in excess of 130mph at times.
They stop for catered lunches and track events on the old Cannonball Run rallies, and any clip of them going quick was accompanied by huge spans of time staying at the speed limit because of the fact they are a parade of super cars. In a little eco shit box I can go faster than a Ferrari, there are no eyes on that eco shit box so I can probably beat most super cars on a long trip through many cities.
The fastest car on the road is one no one notices, one police stop and all that speeding is for naught.
Those aren't the ones I'm talking about. I'm talking about the more recent runs where they do try to set a record. I picked the 2006 because that car wasn't modified with a 70 gallon gas tank. That was just a BMW with some radar detectors, laser jammers and spotters and they did it all in secret. They were going all out.
At an average speed of 50mph you'd be sitting behind the wheel of that car for 22 hours to go 1000 miles.
That's being generous, with gas fill-ups, bathroom and food stops when you're going 0mph it's nearly impossible to go 50mph on average for that long.
But I agree in principle, road trips would suck in an EV. However, for a daily driver that I don't have to take to the gas station and just charge at home it would be pretty neat.
Basically if I had an EV I'd need a second car for road trips.
Well drivers can switch off, I've gone on many mid way cross the nation road trips in a single day, averaging as high as 70mph once stops are accounted for, it's not that unusual.
Even in a Cannonball Run in 2006 where they try to go as fast as possible have the shortest refueling stops, pee in a diaper and reached speeds of 157mph. Their average speed was still 90mph. So that 70mph is quite doubtful unless you're reaching speeds in excess of 130mph at times.
They stop for catered lunches and track events on the old Cannonball Run rallies, and any clip of them going quick was accompanied by huge spans of time staying at the speed limit because of the fact they are a parade of super cars. In a little eco shit box I can go faster than a Ferrari, there are no eyes on that eco shit box so I can probably beat most super cars on a long trip through many cities.
The fastest car on the road is one no one notices, one police stop and all that speeding is for naught.
Those aren't the ones I'm talking about. I'm talking about the more recent runs where they do try to set a record. I picked the 2006 because that car wasn't modified with a 70 gallon gas tank. That was just a BMW with some radar detectors, laser jammers and spotters and they did it all in secret. They were going all out.