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"When I set out from Montana on a cross-continent, 6,000-mile journey in my
electric car, I had two goals. I wanted to visit family and friends in
Wisconsin, Maine, Illinois, and Iowa. And I wanted to prove, to myself and
others, the possibility of making such a journey by electric vehicle.
Before my trip, I absorbed plenty of warnings about EV travel and charging. I
read stories of drivers navigating successfully along charger alleys – Chicago
to Atlanta, for example – but rarely found reports of successful travel across
the so-called charging deserts of Montana or Wyoming, which I hoped to cross in
a vehicle with a nominal range of 250 miles.
Worse, I read plaudits for Tesla charging networks, but because I drive a
Volkswagen ID.4, I depended instead on Combined Charging System, or CCS,
chargers; I found few positive accounts of long-distance travel using CCS
sites.
I also heard complaints about the reliability of charging services. A recent
Wall Street Journal report carried the headline, “Why Are Public EV Chargers
So Unreliable?”
But the price of fuel for such a long trip via gas-powered vehicle seemed too
high. I determined not to discard my EV travel aspirations."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
