WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
For longer journeys with a Tesla you will need to be prepared for strategic stops at Superchargers and this will slow your progress down compared to an ICE car
If 10% of your charging is at Supercharger your total stop time will be the same as your Forecourt time in ICE ... and on those journeys (i.e. more than 200 miles) you would probably stop for a pee too (albeit charging takes longer than peeing - if not: see your doctor )
Plus you can plug-in-and-walk-away at Supercharger, and make use of your time ... emails? ... which is a lot better than stand-and-pump and queue-to-pay
Works for my Man Maths anyway
the argument is about plug in with generator backup ... Hybrid without plug in is just a slightly more efficient ICE - pretty much irrelevant.
I'm very pro BEV with Range Extender (generator). I am carting around a tonne of battery just for the two days a month that I use it and, whilst the industry is battery-constrained, I am preventing two smaller-battery cars having been made. Car industry seems to be ditching them though (e.g. BMW i3 REX)
Range Extender would mean zero range anxiety too. I, and every BEV driver I know, is happy with range, but it would undoubtedly help Newbies. And solve the slow rollout of Rapid Chargers, and the leap-frog of batteries being able to cope with far better chargers than currently exist ... which we might yet have a couple more iterations of in the coming years.