Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average. (insideevs.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just use electromaps to find the chargers. And figure out the route myself. I don't know any reliable app to plan the whole route. Can you recommend anything?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

A Better Route Planner (ABRP) is generally considered the gold standard.

But that said 99% of the time I was using Tesla's chargers so there is little thinking involved. But I've white knuckled a couple of charging stops in ND, SD, MT.

Last summer i unfortunately got in an accident about 900 miles from home. When I went to pick up my car a few months later, I found out at my first charging stop that stupid Tesla disabled supercharging. Fortunately I had done the DIY upgrade to enable CCS charging and was relieved that they only disabled supercharging and not all DCFS.

I managed to get home but it was painful. 5 or 6 different charging networks all with their unique issues. I often spent more time getting a charge started than I would have spent charging on a Tesla charger.

When I got home, my local service center reenabled supercharging without having to do some HV voltage battery test at a cost of about $1600. That was not disclosed on the estimate they provided.