EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks

Reisender wrote:

Lantley wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Lantley wrote:
All I will add to all this diatribe is that the real advantage of EV's is efficiency.

Charge time is not efficient.

Efficiency defines energy in this case, time is really a different parameter.
That said charging time does not derate the EV's efficiency nor does it limit its viability in most cases.
Sure if your competing in the 24 hours at Daytona or crossing the country in a competition like "It's a Mad Mad World". Charge time may have a huge impact, but for typical every day use charge time is not a huge factor.

It does add up, but a lot depends on how you travel. On a 600 kilometre day we will spend 90 minutes supercharging, but 30 minutes of that is lunch so not really lost time. Realistically we probably lose an hour. But really for us when we are touring it’s rare for us to travel that far in a day. Many of our days we only travel 50 to 100 kilometres. But yep, on dead head days like over northern Ontario our days is probably an hour longer because of charging.

That can also get better or worse depending on wether we charge in the campground overnight. Although we do that commonly that is certainly not always the case as we dry camp a lot. And since we generally only rent 30 amp sites we rarely hit the road with more than 60 or 70 percent charge if we are just staying overnight.

This is outside of Sudbury Ontario and we are charging on a 30 amp site which is max 24 amps so around 3 kw an hour….ish.



Just keeping it real.