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I love talking to people that I know with range anxiety when I know they could charge every night at their home.
And then they start on about "What about long trips?", and I've known them for over 20 years, and the only travel they've ever done is from the airport.
Seriously, are they getting paid ? I don't get why they feel obliged to just talk about scenarios that don't even apply to them.
As someone who doesn't own a car, it's wild to me that people will buy something for the extremely rare times they'll use that feature.
Renting a car for the weekend is a thing, folks...
And then they start on about "What about long trips?", and I've known them for over 20 years, and the only travel they've ever done is from the airport.
This is also why they buy those massive 4WDs as city and suburban people. It's for the imaginary off road camping trip they are definitely going to go on...one day. Could just buy a normal car and hire the 4WD, but no - they plan their entire life around the one thing that will never actually happen.
The funniest part is that if 90% of those cars attempt actual offroading, the cars will kill themselves, or, the driver will kill the car, having absolutely no clue how to drive off road.
Several years back, I was in a Prius C, hybrid, trying a shortcut through some empty truck loading dock areas, to get around an accident at a fairly major intersection not too far away.
... Me, in my little putt-putt subcompact... found myself blocked by... it must have been a Ford 350.
He had come up to a puddle.
A 3 inch deep puddle.
But it was really broad, wide.
This fucking moron was evidently not from around here, doesn't cut through this completely flat parking lot that gets puddles like this whenever it rains, which is often.
So I carefully mount a bit of a curb, with two wheels, (again, in my subcompact hybrid) to drive around this lost idiot. I carefully dismount the curb, with him honking at me the whole time, and then make a rooster tail in the 1/8 mile long, 3 inch puddle that him in his F 350 can't fucking figure out.
When I got home, I checked my undercarriage for any damage.
Nothing.
Also, no electrical problems either, in the following months, in my hybrid, that 90% of local mechanics say has electronics that are too complicated for them to even touch the car for anything semi-complicated.
Truck people are not worthy of drawing breath.
Don't get me started on the SUV thing.
I seriously question how often they leave the tarmac, and would love to see proof if they are ever put in 4WD mode.
Meh, most of them are probably 2WD and only pretend offroaders anyways.
I have a mate who genuinely drives across australia. For leisure, he's a travelling man. He"s done melb to broome, to busselton, followed the 'ghan, whole kit and caboodle.
He does it in a divvy van he's had converted to lpg.
I suspect much of it is a fear of change. People are looking for a remotely plausible reason to dismiss it, even if it doesn't apply to them, because it means they won't have to modify their behaviour. You can see this with plant based diets, public and active transport, and cooking and heating technologies such as induction cooktops and heatpumps.
The plus side is that the moment people actually make the change, they rarely go back. See also congestion pricing across the world, where the view of it is negative right up until it's implemented and it almost immediately becomes popular.
TL;DR: You can't charge in remote areas in central Australia.
If you live in a city you can charge almost anywhere. All major highways are covered. Check PlugShare for charger locations.
If you can charge at home, you'll get cheaper and more convenient electricity.
Yeah there’s not a lot of petrol stations that way either.
But if it’s a problem, rent a gasser.
Yes, really. I recommend checking plugshare (linked above) to find chargers before complaining about the lack of chargers.
As long as Plugshare data is accurate. A lot of towns only have a 3kW public charger.
No one does the maths to determine that it would take 20 hours to fill a 60kW battery.
Some have 7kW and some even have 22kW, so you can park your car in a side street for 3 hours before you can continue your journey.
Fast DC chargers are available in main highways, and more are being installed all the time, but just because a charger is shown on Plugshare; there is no guarantee that it; A) will be in service, B) will charge your car in a reasonable time, C) will not be occupied.
Plugshare has this cool feature where it tells you if a charger is a rapid charger or a destination charger. The orange ones in the image are rapid chargers. As you can see, they are not just on highways.
Plugshare also has a rating system to give you an indication of reliability, user reports so you can see if it was working recently, and even has integration with several charging companies to give you realtime information about how many chargers are available or in use.
The old tritium chargers had reliability issues, but the newer chargers seem to be a lot better so far.