Yeah we drive a lot. It will be less when daughter is no longer in travel soccer it doesn't help when she is on a team that is 50 miles from our house. Lots of practice and games far away. In winter our practice is 70 miles from our house
We average about $350 a month in gas last year, covid changed a lot with communing a few days a week instead of every day. Soccer is also less. We will still be over 25-30,000 miles for the year I bet.
That is quite a big gas bill for a month. Hopefully there’s some carpooling going on to lighten the burden.
I think that at most there will be a small, maybe 10% increase in range than what was stated last year.
Of course you don’t allow your power going out to the grid, that would endanger linemen. I installed a manual lock out transfer switch 20 years ago, as grid was unreliable, use a backup Propane water cooled Koehler generator.
So it appears that there is a little more to it than just an additional 2 pole breaker. It is a very simple matter for you to add a line or two to the original post making it clear that the emergency source must be connected by means of a switch that insures that it is isolated from the line. Please do that.
You have to isolate it because your generator will break down with the functionally infinite capacitance of the grid plugged into it.
Maybe, you do - and, I'm sure many do. But, when I'm in a road trip with my sons we stop just long enough to pee - and, not a second longer! Hard to get those electrons when the entire stop last less than five minutes.
5 minutes is 70 more miles of range at a 250 kilowatt station at 300 watt-hours per mile.
Just recognize that not everyone wants to drive as you do when going long distance. My vacation time is limited. When I take my two sons skiing we, typically, only have a couple days travel time for both directions! It is 16 hrs one way with only one stop for a sit down meal which is less than 40 minutes. Every single stop the rest of the 16 hrs is less than five minutes and we switch drivers. We only stop when we reach a 1/4 tank if gas in the truck. This allows us to have five days of skiing on a seven day vacation.
That's the point. They're describing a type of driving and then not doing the math.
I'm describing my trips with my two sons... Apologies, it is 14 hrs - not 16. And, we drive mostly at night and several times just pull over on the side of the road in desolate west Texas to pee. We rarely stop more than five times in the whole 14 hr trip. Three times to fill up (one of those times to sit down and eat.) Any other time the only person who exits the truck is the one who needs to pee - go straight to the restroom and straight back. Occasionally, we don't even turn the truck off as we just aren't there long enough to bother.
There is simply no way to slice it in which charging a BEV does not take more time than filling up with petrol. On a 900 mile trip you would typically charge to 95% at home before departure and then drive down to 10% meaning, if all goes well and you maintian EPA rating like speed, 85% of 500 miles is 425 miles. At that point you would charge to 70% which would take you 27 - 37 minutes depending on the severity of the charger's taper. You would then drive down to 10% again giving you 60% of 500 miles or 300 miles. You would now be at 10% and 725 miles from home with 200 miles to go so you would charge for a second time to 60% which would take 22 to 27 minutes. It's 5 miles per percent so the remainder of the trip would require 40% and you would arrive at the destination with 20% reserve so you could charge to only 50% for 10% reserve and save 5 - 7 minutes (17 - 20 minute to 50%). Total charging time is then 49 - 64 minutes. There are things, of course, that can change that. Driving fast, headwinds and, the one that always surprises me in its impact, rain. Besides that charging stations are where they are - not likely to be spaced as I have assumed in these calculations. You must be prepared to adjust for these things in real time. Many people find this aspect of driving a BEV part of the fun. If you do not and/or if you find as much as an hour or even somewhat more nettlesome on a trip of this length then don't get a BEV.
