Re: Charging at home

[LEE A HART <XURQ03A@PRODIGY.COM>]

To Tom Shay and the group:

I have both an EV and an ICE. I can pick either one, and human nature being
what it is, I pick the one that is most convenient. The EV wins well over 90%
of the time.

I suffer from engineer disease, and so write down the data each time I refuel
my cars. Just for fun, I checked to see how much each has been used.

The last time I drove my ICE was a week ago; I had to go to the airport with 3
people, and my EV is a 2-seater. The last time I put gas in it was Aug 9, and
have driven it 202 miles since then.

In that same time period (Aug 9 - Oct 30) I've driven 541 EV miles. Most of
that is the daily commute to work (8 miles round trip), and the rest is for
general errands to the store, bank, post office, Axman surplus, etc. I've
charged 37 times, or about every 15 miles.

Maybe the EV is 37 times less convenient, because I had to charge it 37 times
versus putting gas in the ICE only once. But I don't feel that way. Refueling
in my garage is easier. One end of every trip is home, so I don't have to go
anyplace special. Electric outlets are more common than gas stations.

For long trips, the ICE is more convenient. For really long trips (to
someplace warm), I fly. The ICE is relegated to that middle range, more than
50 but less than a few hundred miles. In my case, that is a minority of my trips
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Re: Charging at home