Tesla has halfway decent analysis in the energy app. Plug in a destination and go, then see what it’s saying for consumption. Wh/mi, and all of the various contributors to consumption. That should be enlightening.

In any case, 85km from any Model 3 trim level is quite terrible. Even if you lived up in Yellowknife and drove on the coldest night I’d expect better than that from 90% of battery.

IIRC the majority of EVs sold today come with a lithium 12V battery.

1. Goes like stink
2. Convenient, always fully charged every day
3. Preconditioning and climate keeping
4. Goes like stink
5. Gas prices are what?? 5 bucks a gallon? Holy shit I feel for you schmucks who still have to drop like a hundred bucks ever week just to drive

Not only that, but gasoline is notoriously demand sensitive. Even a 1% change in demand moves the price quite a lot.

It’s going to be fascinating. Most of the power an EV uses comes from charging at home, so even without refueling stations people could make it work in a pinch. But refining your own gasoline is not going to happen, so when refueling stations become scarce it’s going to be a lot harder to own a gas powered vehicle than it was to own an early EV.

Still a number of years off, but I think it’s entirely possible that the change will occur more abruptly than we expect.

Peak gasoline consumption may have been in 2018.

Looks like August 2019 was the peak. Then the pandemic happened. It hasn’t really been long enough to see a new pattern stabilize since then.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MGFUPUS2&f=M

I think it’d be cool if the Tesla rack was offered in a design that folded back when not in use, so it wasn’t such a drag. Thinking like Subaru does on the Outback.

Only if you have an extremely narrow viewpoint. There are practical implications of neutral/hot vs hot/hot even if the end result is 120V in both cases.

a free L1 charger (Tesla cost $750)

Tesla does not sell an L1 charger, unless you are thinking of the mobile connector (which can do both L1 and L2). And if you’re paying $750 for it, you paid more than $500 over what Tesla charges for it. Even the wall charger is barely more than half that.

Am I fighting a lost battle here?

Yes. “SUV” has never had a formal definition, it means whatever you want.

Normal US is two 120V phases

It’s a lost cause, but for anyone else who comes along and reads this, be aware that it’s false. The US has single phase 240V for residential service. There’s a center tap neutral that gets fed from the transformer to the home which allows customers to choose between 120V or 240V circuits as appropriate for their needs.

What a ridiculous hot take. I suggest doing a bit more research on the grid before getting sad about non-problems.

Alright, dear confused Americans

LMAO. We should start a Q&A for all the confused Europeans who confidently talk about America like they have a clue. Seems like a fair trade.

What’s super fun is talking to right wingers who are part of a union. Theirs is the only good one.

99% of what drives news coverage is clicks. They’re constantly A/B testing everything from entire articles right down to the headlines and bylines. If you’re perceiving an uptick in negative coverage, it’s because the algorithms have figured out it makes you click.

Actual events in the real world are purely secondary.

It’s got a bigger battery than almost every other EV, almost as big as the Lightning’s base pack. It has the same range as a base model Nissan Leaf.
Downvote all you want, but the Ramcharger is definitely an EV. Packaging in the Pentastar V6 as a generator is an interesting idea, and might well bring in a bunch of new owners that wouldn’t be interested in the limited range of other full size electric pickups.

Ramcharger is electric.

None of these vehicles will be towing anywhere near their “tow rating.” I get that this sub is mostly not car peole, so I understand the confusion.

You nearly always run out of payload and axle capacity way before you run out of pulling capacity. The “tow rating” is just for magazing racing.

Why do people still listen to Toyota’s battery plans? They are not on the leading edge of technology. Go talk to CATL if you want to know what the next Big Thing in battery tech is going to be.

Good move. But I look forward to the day when battery technology has progressed to the point where we have flat charging curves at 150kW or more. Then it wouldn’t be an issue in the first place.