This is absurd. In reality you'd stop in Valdosta - about the midway point - charge for 30-40 minutes at the Electrify America station in the Walmart parking lot, walk around the store and buy snacks for your trip. Or eat lunch at the Cajun Wild Crab next door. It would cost you about $4.80 to add 200 miles of range to your vehicle (if you're an EA member for $4/month). Once at Disney you'd find a Level 2 charger at your hotel and charge up for free for the return trip.
Charging infrastructure is lacking right now, but it's improving every day. Once the big truck stop brands realize how much they can profit by sticking charging stations in their parking lots, range anxiety will be a thing of the past. Allegedly Tesla's Supercharging network will be opened to other manufacturers soon - I'm not holding my breath on that one but it will cause demand to increase even faster.
For those who say "But I can't tow my horse trailer from Detroit to San Diego in one day like I can with my Yukon!" Well... it's not for you, then. No big deal.
Exactly.
I bought my wife's Yukon 4 years ago, almost to the day, and she has put roughly 40K miles on it, mostly kid-hauling around Austin and grocery store, etc. That works out to about 30 miles per day.
The longest road trips we have taken are to N.E. Texas from Austin, about 260 miles, she is an ideal candidate for an EV.
We LOVE this thing, but it costs us over $300/month in just fuel alone. However if, say for example, she had a Telsa Model Y, it would drop that driving cost down to about $35/month (less if we had solar).
I've had a crew cab ram diesel for 6 years and am sick and tired of $110 oil changes, DEF/DPF/EGR problems, and $5/gal gas. So I've got a Cybertruck on order.
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