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Originally Posted by RedDevil
even if you'd like to take just a quarter of an hour after 4 hours of driving you could get to 80% at a supercharger with less than half an hour extra. Two stops like that would cost you less than an hour extra per day. The third stop would be the overnight stay.
I cannot see how that would be a bigger problem than going through all the effort and cost of building and maintaining a pusher trailer.
Especially if you'd only use it a couple of times per year.
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The reality is often less optimistic for EV charging. Take the 240 mile range Bolt. It can charge at a max rate of 45 kW. At 55% SoC it tapers off. Assuming you begin charging at 5% SoC, you get 45 kW for 40 minutes, adding roughly 100 miles of range.
A typical long distance trip for me is 1000 miles, stopping every 3 hrs for 12 minutes. That's 15 hrs of driving and 1 hr refueling/bathroom/grabbing a sandwich to go.
So with an EV, that same trip I would need to stop every 90 minutes for 40 minutes to recharge. That's 6 stops times 40 minutes, or 4 hours. 3 more hours than if I were in a gasser. Best case scenario, my 16 hr trip is now 20, assuming I can find chargers ideally located, they work, and they aren't in use by others.
EVs are not good for long trips unless you have lots of free time and don't consider your time very valuable, or normally travel at a leisurely pace. I get 3 weeks vacation per year, and I intend to spend as little of it as possible driving, and certainly wouldn't subject my family to the extra delays.
The point about a pusher is a good one though. I wouldn't road trip in an EV to begin with, and I certainly wouldn't build a pusher just to make it more convenient. Kudos to those with the interest in taking on such adventures though. I'm not disparaging people that take on the challenge.