How does owning an EV impact your travel choices?

I might mention that without separating out vehicles by range, lumping together all "EVs" may make your results a little suspect... for example, obviously someone with a leaf with it's limited range and slow charging are far less likely to take a cross country roadtrip than someone with a Tesla with much longer range and superchargers...

Doug_G said:

The questions kept mentioning "300 mile range", so I think that survey was targeted at Tesla owners.

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Mine was 265 miles, so I think it changes depending upon what you enter.

It does as my range (Roadster) is 200, and the range questions seemed to be based on that.

I wrote that my driving habits were "unchanged", but on 2nd thought, that's not true.
I no longer think about where gas stations are. I don't worry about being late because I need to fill up. I can drive in the carpool lane in CA. I'm more likely to take my bike with me as I can easily toss it in the car without taking a wheel off.

On the whole, it's just better.

One downside, though, is that my dark blue car doesn't get washed nearly as often as it should because I never go to the car_wash/gas_station combo.

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Some of the questions seemed too contrived:
You have 55 miles of range left, you need to go 60 miles, and it would take you one hour to charge enough to get home.
Do you go out of the way to charge at a mall, or do you take the shortest route home?

Where's the answer: "I would have done something different in the previous 200 miles so as to not wind up in that situation in the first place"?

derekt75 said:

Some of the questions seemed too contrived:
You have 55 miles of range left, you need to go 60 miles, and it would take you one hour to charge enough to get home.
Do you go out of the way to charge at a mall, or do you take the shortest route home?

Where's the answer: "I would have done something different in the previous 200 miles so as to not wind up in that situation in the first place"?

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I thought that as well. The survey was made by people who don't drive an EV.

jerry33 said:

I thought that as well. The survey was made by people who don't drive an EV.

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Same here. I had difficulty with the idea that I would have to charge for an hour.Kept thinking couldnt I just charge up enough to get home and then leave. Not taking the whole hour.

I own TWO Volt's I don't do anything different when planning a trip that I haven't done in 50 years. I check the weather and traffic and go.

I don't normally respond like that, but how is it not relevant in this thread? Any vehicle with an ICE, whether the vehicle also has batteries or not, would not be expected to cause any change to normal travel choices, that's the whole point to having that ICE in the first place. And I would assume that the whole point to this thread was to see how not having that ICE would affect people.
Therfore stating that a vehicle with a power source other than batteries isn't causing a change to driving behaviour, isn't really relevant to the discussion.

FWIW, changes to our households travel choices are:

1. No out-of-the-way gas station stops - go straight to the destination.
2. If we need to pick something up at the store, drop off mail, or any other mundane errands, we don't have to plan as much. (Do I need to do something else while the engine is warm?)
3. Who gets to use it?