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You are correct in the past a map was checked to determine what route to take to the desired destination, frequently the route was based on what to see along the way. What I'm perceiving with an EV is that it becomes how to get to the destination from charger to charger Vs take this road to that road and don't concern yourself there will be gas. I would not call charging worse but certainly not as convenient based on number of chargers. "Rosy Retrospection", perhaps but with about 1100 supercharger locations Vs 110,000 gas stations it will likely need to stay as "Rosy Retrospection" for years to come. I generally don't drive even 200 miles w/o a restroom stop, but what I'm use to is stopping any time needed and just top off the tank at the same time, just a convenience. Sorry for rambling. I do like my Y a lot ; I've driven a lot of vehicles over the years and the Y is the best of the lot.You do have more years of driving under your belt than I do, and I respect that, but for many of those years I also bet you grabbed a paper map out of your glovebox or side pocket and actually planned your route using it. Yes, maybe you didn't have to worry about where to fill up (partially because you didn't run the tank down to the last 10 miles of range like you could do if you really needed to in an EV), but you likely did have to do some level of planning.
Nowadays it's different. You use the car's built-in nav and just put in your destination and it does the planning for you. Yes, I suppose it's not as spontaneous as what you remember in the past, but that doesn't mean it's worse. This sounds like a classic case of Rosy Retrospection to me.
You are correct in the past a map was checked to determine what route to take to the desired destination, frequently the route was based on what to see along the way. What I'm perceiving with an EV is that it becomes how to get to the destination from charger to charger Vs take this road to that road and don't concern yourself there will be gas. I would not call charging worse but certainly not as convenient based on number of chargers. "Rosy Retrospection", perhaps but with about 1100 supercharger locations Vs 110,000 gas stations it will likely need to stay as "Rosy Retrospection" for years to come. I generally don't drive even 200 miles w/o a restroom stop, but what I'm use to is stopping any time needed and just top off the tank at the same time, just a convenience. Sorry for rambling. I do like my Y a lot ; I've driven a lot of vehicles over the years and the Y is the best of the lot.
A good majority of those 110,000 gas stations are literally sitting across street corners from each other, and many in locations that are convenient to where people live (because they can't fuel at home), not necessarily where they travel. Completely unnecessary redundancy.
Actually, as EV's increase in popularity, even replacing a small percentage of ICE, marginal gas stations will start going out of business. Then the next level and so on. There will be places where it will be tough to find gas again and gas car drivers will have to plan carefully or risk getting stranded without gasoline."Rosy Retrospection" for years to come
The guy is a troll, not a real Tesla owner. Just stirring things up, for over 100 messages here.This thread is hilarious. I went back and looked at the area in Idaho this "Tesla owner with long distance experience that is limited to 30 min / 100 mi of charging on the super charger network".
If you filter by 120kw+, there are more superchargers than CCS. If you then filter on "plugscore" you lose more CCS because of low ratings.
Finally, if you lived in a mythical world where Tesla slows your charge rate to a crawl so it takes longer to charge and then also limits you to 100 miles of charging on the SC network but provides you a non limited CCS adapter ...
Well I hope they enjoy fighting over the few "probably" working CCS chargers in the Walmart parking lot.
I am all for more and better charging infra, but OP is trolling.
Actually, as EV's increase in popularity, even replacing a small percentage of ICE, marginal gas stations will start going out of business. Then the next level and so on. There will be places where it will be tough to find gas again and gas car drivers will have to plan carefully or risk getting stranded without gasoline.
At some point there will be a crossover point where they are equally convenient (or inconvenient for the benefit of pessimists).
After that point more charging stations will continue to be built and everything will tip the other way.
That's pretty much how technologies supplant each other. Have you tried to find a payphone or buy a typewriter ribbon recently? Any convenient farriers in your area?
I strongly disagree. I have driven tens of thousands of miles on long trips away from home (when I lived in California) and used Superchargers almost exclusively, including interstate trips to Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and New Mexico.As a Tesla owner I was shocked to realized that the Tesla, pracitically speaking, is only good for local driving. Just taking one long or two or more day trips. Outside of major metropolitan corridors and areas there are relatively few if any Tesla Superchargers.