• femtech@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Not an hour, I regularly go from STL to Chicago in my electric car and it adds 25 min if im driving right back. If I’m staying overnight and plug-in it only adds 15. That’s also when I go to the bathroom and get a snack.

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      6 months ago

      Just like… you know… filling a normal car up with gas. Take a piss, grab some jerkey, have a smoke if that’s your thing, go on reddit for a minute, then keep driving.

      It’s not hard. The paradigm is barely changing. I genuinely don’t get how people fail to understand that.

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        6 months ago

        I get the hesitation though. You see gas stations everywhere, if you don’t know what you’re looking for you don’t see charger stations. My car was the last gas thing I had, mower, trimmer, I already had solar panels from a Illinois solar program. I love taking friends on trips with it and then seeing that it’s not scary. I have run into broken chargers twice. Once from vandalism but thankfully it still worked for me as I registered my car so it automatically uses my account to charge when plugged in. The other was a software issue that they had to send someone out to hard reset. Reminds me I told them it would be a cool idea to have registered/trained people that get free charging credits for fixing ones they come across.

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          6 months ago

          As nifty as repair bounties would be, I think there’s approximately zero chance of that happening, simply because of the liability implications. Tesla’s staff counsel would categorically refuse to sign off on that. High-voltage electrics are a far cry from delivering someone’s takeout orders.