It’s awesome that Google chimes in now. Helpful for us newbies who will have some range anxiety in the beginning. Thanks for the updates. BTW what your go-to at TJ. Nothing like a tangent topic from car talk
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For meals, any of their tamales are great.It’s awesome that Google chimes in now. Helpful for us newbies who will have some range anxiety in the beginning. Thanks for the updates. BTW what your go-to at TJ. Nothing like a tangent topic from car talk
For snacks, I really like the dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
And for drinks, I like their limeade.
They do have good tamales. Remembering one with chicken and corn-I think. And the shredded beef. Guess I just need to eat dinner-now I’m hungry
Tamales! My favorite. They are really good with an over easy egg on top.They do have good tamales. Remembering one with chicken and corn-I think. And the shredded beef. Guess I just need to eat dinner-now I’m hungry
Have to try that. But isn’t almost everything better with an over easy egg
. And BACON!
That's important but only part of the question that needs to be asked..
As a driver of an EV (and a diesel truck) I think the road trip concerns are overblown. Every EV road trip stop we had to make has been driven by the pace my kids need for the restroom / snacks / drinks, never the EV charge time. But you do need to spend a minute to educate yourself on how these things work and what a charging curve is; be sure to pick modern 250 or 350KW charges and don't try to to fill to 100% every time.
But the other half of the question is the charge experience when NOT on a road trip. What is it like on a daily basis? To that, EVs are such a superior option. Assuming you have a place to plug it in each night; it is so much more convenient. Every day you leave the house with a full "tank". Never needing to his a gas station when you're running late. You're able to schedule the pre-heat or pre-cool before you get in it is great. I remember one time we went to Hershey Park in the Summer, the kids decorate this big chocolate thing. We didn't want to carry that with us through out the park so we put it in the EV and just set the internal temp on pet mode for the day to keep the chocolate from melting.. Could never do that with my diesel truck.
So road trips are not bad for EVs, but daily life is so much better.
And knowing you probably paid $35-40 for that cookie and happy kids on the ride home that was a life saver to some degree and made the day and post event driving experience considerably better
This is so true.
Recently a buddy needed to borrow the Lightning to move some furniture from the valley up the mountain--300 miles round trip, 6000 feet elevation change in each direction. The night before I told the truck to charge to 100%--I didn't have to go anywhere, just tap my phone a couple of times. He picked up the truck on a Wednesday, and headed down off the mountain. He had no need to stop. I had no need to give him any admonition about the type of fuel required, etc.
He got to the house he was moving furniture from, plugged in to a dryer outlet for Level 2 charging, and did his thing for the rest of the day. The truck charged to 100% overnight--no need to deal with running to the gas station. He got home late Thursday and wasn't able to bring the truck over that night. He has a slow Level 1 charger at home. After he unloaded Friday morning, he asked if he should take it to the DCFC and I said, absolutely not. The Lightning was at about 35% when he returned it. To charge from 35% to 90%, which is my standard cap, it cost $2.50, and I didn't have to take the truck out to refill it. If I had needed it on Friday, I might have asked him to do the DCFC run, but I didn't, so that saved both of us time and money.
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