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Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents (cleantechnica.com)

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Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents::Several state governors are fighting fear mongering as they attempt to reduce transportation emissions in their states.

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I have owned an EV for a couple years. Range is constantly on my mind. Did we charge it last night? Crap, we had a 70% charge and need to go across town. If we end up running side errands, we may be cutting it close" etc

Far more mental overhead than the combustion engine car we also use.

I ultimately like the EV, but don't pretend that it's biggest draw back shouldn't be a point of discussion anymore.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Are there no (or few) DC fast chargers in your city? In your described situation, I'd have no problem pulling into any number of DC fast chargers for 5 minutes to put $1.75 of kw into the car to give me plenty of charge for peace of mind.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are pretty far inbetween, but they do exist. Definitely going out of your way to get to one

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Time commitment just to get to one, time commitment to charge, time commitment to get back on track to where you were going.

There's plenty of places and points of time that this would be a big enough of an issue for people to push them away.

However, I think people should heavily consider one especially if they're just going in and around town and have the luxury of being able to install a charger at their home/place of residence.

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