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I am in this camp except for everything bolded there. I find your investigation very intriguing and most certainly not dumb. I assume a majority of EV owners (and potential owners) are not positioned as I am and I believe a range extender sort of solution would be helpful in easing adoption...

I'm not demanding anything from you. I'm just highlighting the difference between your very tailored one-off solution and the much more general purpose pursuit of the OP.

What? There are none. That's the point. Your well thought out "solution" is the fantasy as is the thought that the Lightning can pull my boat up to Ash River Visitor Center (it can) and back (it can't.) So my very workable solution is a '24 Ford Expedition with 3.5L EcoBoost. That can get...

Well I do and that is the only thing I pull. So, how does your solution work for me?

How would you then pull a boat trailer?

That sounds great and heck, I would be happy to just eat the fish I catch myself with my own boat up on Rainy Lake on the border of Minnesota and Ontario. Just curious, which one of the zero possible fast chargers should I use up there?

Well, I mean, even THIS GUY has use for a fossil fuel burner.

Actually, that would have been the cheapest option BY FAR*. The downside of flying, which I have sworn off in retirement, is that you miss all of the "texture" that is found on the ground. * considering I was the sole occupant of the Lightning during this trip

Well comparing the cost of ICE fuel to EV fuel while traveling IS the main point of comparing the cost to travel. What we pay to charge at home is irrelevant since, by definition, we are not at home. I am fully committed to the use of EV for >= 95% of our driving which is within fifty miles or...

On my recent 2,500 mile road trip I recall seeing gas prices advertised mostly around $3.10 from MN to SC. At that price if I would have been piloting a vehicle that averaged 18.7 mpg the fuel cost would have been a push versus the charging cost for my Lightning using the Tesla membership pricing.

I recently completed a 2,500 mile roundtrip from Minneapolis-ish to Greenville, SC and back by two distinct routes. I purchased the Tesla membership for the month and used Supercharger sites almost exclusively for the entire trip. I did not experience a single failure with any of them. The...

Just finished a 2,500 mile round trip from MN to SC. Planned the outbound with ABRP and used it to navigate on the way there. It annoyed me to no end when it would suddenly declare my route was "no longer viable" right in the midst of traffic in places like Louisville, Asheville etc. On...

If Ford abandons EV then I will abandon them. GM EV sales Q1 25

Interesting. Without a separate meter I wonder how they know to segregate your EV charging usage from other usage (e.g AC). Good deal though if they just reduced your rate between 2100 to 1600 because you got an EV.

It does not appear that anyone mentioned it here yet so apologies if I missed it. You should check with your power utility to see if they offer a Time of Use rate for EV charging. This can be a substantial savings. For example in my area I pay $0.065/kWh to charge overnight vs the normal rate...

You seem to be the counter example to the “recency effect”. But, I think you could use a little more of it. Time to update your worldview brother. Magoo is not wrong. IMHO of course.

As regards the Chinese EV industry the Out of Spec crew recently spent some time in China driving some of their products.. I suppose they (Chinese mfg) could have made sure to provide them (OOS) with outlier product but I don't believe OOS was accompanied by any "minders". Their (or just...

Right. AFAIK any impacts on battery chemistry induced by altitude are deminimus however the atmosphere at altitude is less dense than at sea level so the higher you are the less drag you encounter, all other things being equal. Flyboys refer to this as density altitude. It's important for...

Fair enough. Also under Temperature then since colder air is more dense and thus produces increased drag. Altitude too eh? Should be more efficient at altitude than at sea level I suppose.

I think you forgot drag (aka Wind Resistance) which I believe is the most significant factor next to Temperature.