Yahoo Cars: Six months with a Tesla Model S: the good, bad and glitchy

[brianman]

I have range anxiety all the time with my ICE vehicles. But then again I tend to drive them down to E.

That's a personal choice not a vehicle limitation.

 

[Mayhemm]

Bcause it didn't matter with any other car. There were gas stations all over.

Maybe if you live in a city. Here in podunkville we have two gas stations and they close at 9pm. Kind of sucks if you roll into town on empty at 9:30.

 

[AnOutsider]

Maybe if you live in a city. Here in podunkville we have two gas stations and they close at 9pm..

How many EV charging stations do they have?

Kind of sucks if you roll into town on empty at 9:30.

I think there are many towns that shut the pumps down at night, unless you're on an interstate. In an EV you'd have to find a normal outlet and wait til morning when you'd have about 36 miles. Waiting til morning in a gasser would get you 200-300 easy.

 

[SCW-Greg]

That's a personal choice not a vehicle limitation.

I know, I know.

Just saying range anxiety is something that plagues people everyday, but they think of it differently when they know where/how close the next station is.

 

[Mayhemm]

How many EV charging stations do they have?

Touché.

I'm not saying rolling into town wouldn't be MUCH more inconvenient in an EV, just that the assumption that there will always be a gas station to rescue you from your poor trip planning in an ICE is sometimes unfounded.

 

[jkirkebo]

I think there are many towns that shut the pumps down at night, unless you're on an interstate.

Very different from Norway then. Here most every pump takes debit/credit cards and thus works even if the rest of the station is closed for the night. A lot of stations are unmanned too, no building, just pumps.

 

[jerry33]

Very different from Norway then. Here most every pump takes debit/credit cards and thus works even if the rest of the station is closed for the night. A lot of stations are unmanned too, no building, just pumps.

In very small towns, like the ones being discussed (pop. > 1000), the companies that own the pumps won't pay the price to install newer pumps. The reason for the 24 hour pumps is to gain extra revenue, and in a small town the revenue from gas pumps is basically fixed regardless of pump hours.