Thoughts/advice on buying electric vehicles.

[dcbwhaley]

Certainly after 3+, most folk will need a physical needs break of some sort. Changed thinking means you schedule/arrange these stops to coincide so that you are charging while you eat, drink, visit restrooms, buy gifts for whoever you are visiting, whatever (which you were going to do anyway).

But a fifteen minute stop is sufficient. can you recharge in that time?

 

[trebor79]

But a fifteen minute stop is sufficient. can you recharge in that time?

Yes, easily enough for another 2 hours driving in my Tesla and some cars charge even more quickly.
My average supercharger stop is 12 minutes.

 

[Harpers Tate]

But a fifteen minute stop is sufficient. can you recharge in that time?

Yes, of course. You can charge in 2 minutes, but you won't add much. Point is - you don't have to fill it. You only need what you need. Any extra is a bonus.
You give it the shorter of
- time it takes to add what you need until your next opportunity
- time it takes you to do your parallel activity.

Charging speed depends on far too many factors. And the "value" of that charge depends on the vehicle's efficiency. The Ioniq5 for example can go from 10-80% full in under 20 minutes at the right charger. That represents around 200 miles added real-world.

There is a different way of thinking here. Suppose that on that initial 250 mile journey to your 15 minute R&R stop, you also stopped elsewhere for another reason. If you had plugged it in (even if not close to being needed) then, you'd have added some range and thereby possibly shortened the next stop. Think ABC (Always Be Charging) for best use of your time.

 

[Sun Chariot]

A final thought from me, driven from posts #3961 to #3965 in this linked related thread. I'm just back from a NYC break.

Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

Slightly OT (well - off continent :D ). Over the next few days, I'll l have a chance to see the extent of New York's EV-adoption and a comparison with the UK's urban adoption.

www.railforums.co.uk

Manhattan's EV presence seemed, in the main, hybrids: taxis, chauffeured cars to theatreland; and Tesla Cybertrucks (and I never thought I'd write  that word in the plural...)