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Old 01-22-2020, 04:41 PM   #23
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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the chargers have a timer to turn them on at midnight
Not the chargers, the cars; the cars know how much juice they need and stuff

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Remember what happens to the city water pressure at superbowl halftime?
That's an urban myth actually!

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hope you don't get caught in traffic
An EV doesn't use fuel when caught in traffic, except for as you said, AC and heat and such.

I wouldn't have one as the only household vehicle. But I did look at the number of times I actually drove 250* miles in one shot over the last 3 years, and it was one time. Hmm.

Your mileage may vary!

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I do not want a car that isn't available when I need/want it.
That's a wash, because an EV doesn't have a wildly complicated cooling system, alternator, transmission, fuel+oil level/quality/pump/filtering and everything else that can fail in the middle of a trip.


*standard range Model 3, if charged to 100%. (Long range Model 3 = 322 miles)
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