EV Withdrawal

[snoltor]

On an 11 day trip to the east coast, visiting family in my hometown. Driving around a standard ICE and really missing the electric drive. Starting to look around and see if it's possible to rent a Volt. On the good news front though, I saw a Tesla Model S today in my hometown. I was Shocked. If there's an electric car in my hometown then EVs are making real progress!

 

[occ]

Just came back from Hawaii. Used a rental ICE for the whole time. At first I thought, hey this isn't so bad, pretty quiet smooth ride on the freeway, they've improved quite a bit. Then when I got home and drove my rav4ev, my reaction was "OMG, so quiet!". And this was a rav4ev..not quite the most silent of the EVs. Just reaffirmed that I will never own another gasser.

 

[reeler]

Once you go EV, you don't go back. Rental cars and classic cars will be the only ICE cars I will ever drive again. After tasting the future, the past looks so old fashion.

 

[snoltor]

That was two full weeks, almost to the hour without driving my Rav... great to be back behind the wheel of an EV. I left my Rav in a parking garage in Sacramento 2 floors underground. I had run the battery down to about 60 miles and then my wife helpfully charged it up to full.... somehow she didn't get that memo. I didn't have much time before leaving and was only able to run it down to 94 miles. It gets hot here, in fact yesterday afternoon it reached 104 in Sacramento, but the good news is that it was only 73 degrees in the bottom floor of the garage, so that was good for the battery. Anyways, after 2 full weeks of sitting in a garage, max temp apparently in the low 70's, the GOM was still at 94 miles. So little to no loss during 2 weeks - Tony has posted on this before.

Again, great to be driving an EV again.