You certainly can't rely on public chargers, or at least I haven't had the nerve to yet... I only charge at work or home.
Regards, Stephen On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:38 AM, paul dove via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > I built mine 2 years ago. > > The only time I charged it anywhere besides my garage was when I towed it > to EVCON. > > It's mostly a silly argument and most chargers around cities are never > used. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> > To: tomw <[email protected]>; Electric Vehicle Discussion List < > [email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:08 AM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Hand-wringing EV angst is not a real problem > > > On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:27 AM, tomw via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A person's viewpoint on this and many other things depends on how risk > averse > > s/he is, and we all tend to think our level of risk aversion is just > about > > right and any that is quite different is unreasonable. > > Range anxiety, I think, is even more governed by typical and expected use > cases. > > If you have a five mile commute and the next city is thirty miles away and > you can't imagine needing to go there on a whim, range anxiety isn't going > to exist even with a vehicle with only 50 miles of range. > > If you live (as I do) in the Phoenix metro area, a vehicle with an 80-mile > EPA range probably won't even be able to make it from Apache Junction (the > city on the eastern edge of the Valley) to Buckeye (on the western edge) on > a single charge. > > Risk aversion is going to be secondary to that. Maybe you live in the > small town and you're not very risk averse, so a 20-mile range seems > luxurious; maybe you live in the small town and you _are_ risk averse and > that 50-mile range is what it takes to calm your fears. But, no matter how > risk averse you are or aren't, if you live in Surprise and work in downtown > Phoenix and can't plug in (a perfect description of another friend of > mine), that 50-mile car isn't even going to get you all the way home. This > same friend also sometimes has to go to Mesa as part of the job, and _that_ > round trip is itself outside of even the Leaf's EPA range. She'd probably > honestly need a 200-mile range just to get to the same level of lack of > range anxiety as that person in the small town would have with a 20-mile > range. > > b& > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141119/90b83eec/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141119/d94fc742/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
