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Pretty certain it’s at least 30 if not 45 or more. You’d have long enough to study up about the sinking coastline and rising oceans that will make the Florida Ridge the next hot property.

 

15 - 20 minutes to get to an 80% charge.

Depends on the car / depends on the charger.

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The cool thing about technology is there are enough early adopters to finance the breakthrough improvements that eventually make it practical for schlubs like me.

 

Keep thinking that.

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

 

You can get anything you want
At Alice’s Restaurant (excepting Alice)

 

There are lots of Rivians around here because I live in the city where the company is based. They look cool during the day. But if one comes up behind you at night, you think you are being attacked by an alien spacecraft. There are a couple of other vehicles with the weird headlights like the Rivian has. They freak you out.

 

Stopping and starting helps with mileage in an EV or hybrid normally, because of regenerative braking. I get my highest rates in light traffic, as annoying as that is. Like normal gas mileage, the quickest thing that'll burn it is going 70 to 90 mph, vs. slower cruising speeds.

 

Electric cars need transmissions.

 

You're not stopping once in a gasoline vehicle for more than 10 minutes anyway during a 300+ mile journey? Also, at that distance, you're now in the time and money frame that it might make more sense to fly and Uber anyway. I'm in the Houston metro area, so we might drive to Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, but otherwise we'd just fly.

 

Hey!!!

 

Lunch, yes. Some antique or fabric store wife wants to visit, yes.

Enabling car to continue running, no. Unless it breaks down.

 

Plenty of recharging spots are designed with this in mind, like they throw banks of 6 to 12 in places like this or this. Or at the Cracker Barrel, if you prefer.