Running out of battery seems even harder, because you can leave your garage every day at 100% if you wanted to!
Another electric car almost out of power.
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Neither have I. I've also never ran out of charge in any of my EVs. There's a lot to be said for planning ahead and not taking crazy chances.
I've run out of gas twice in ICE vehicles. Just being stupid and taking unnecessary chances. I took my Focus EV down to less than 1% remaining twice but both times were unique circumstances. Once all the L2 chargers were being used by Teslas, so I tried to make it another charger 40 miles aways. Unfortunately, I picked the right store, but wrong location...the correct one was a couple of miles away. I didn't' even know there was more than one. I barely made it and driving that mile down the Interstate to the next exit was hair raising. Another time there was a stiff headwind and it was very cold. I slowed from 65 to 50 and rolled into the garage with 0 miles left. My I-Pace and Blazer have far more range than the Focus, so no need to ever push my luck.
On the way home from Petaluma (wine country) to our home in the South Bay, the last leg, San Mateo southward, is downhill. So even if the remaining charge was really low, I will gain a little. Plus there are Superchargers all over the place...
Regardless, I sure as H-E-double toothpicks don't wanna push this piggy little car!
They have outside outlets. How else could they plug in cola vending machines and ice freezers? Usually outlets by the gas pumps for service personnel.
1.2 kW at $0.50/kWh is $0.60/hour. Our current education system is so poor.
The EV driver would be happy to pay $5 for 2 hours. The cashier would probably slip it in his pocket and not tell the manager.
You are right. The EV owner should sell his car on the spot to the first person offering $100.
Two hours will get one to either DCFC mentioned. Faster and cheaper than a flatbed.
I did that once and had a couple know-it-alls laughing at me.
Until I took my lawn mower's gas can out of the trunk.
I ran out of gas in my Prius. Was coming from Branson MO on some road which intersected I-55. Had driven 40 miles on Low Fuel light one time and had a gallon remaining, and 70 miles another time and still held a gallon less than the tank was rated. So seeing boarded up gas stations all along the newly 4-laned road I wasn't too concerned with the Low Fuel light not yet illuminated. Then it did. And engine stopped just over a mile later.
A 2007 Prius will drive at greatly reduced power on hybrid battery so that is what I did. A mile to I-55 at 30 MPH, no other cars on the road. Road improvements so new there were no signs up yet. Didn't see any gas stations, not knowing what to do I drove under the interstate to find a 2-pump convenience store! Held 0.3 gallons short of the tank's advertised capacity.
A 2007 Prius will drive at greatly reduced power on hybrid battery so that is what I did. A mile to I-55 at 30 MPH, no other cars on the road. Road improvements so new there were no signs up yet. Didn't see any gas stations, not knowing what to do I drove under the interstate to find a 2-pump convenience store! Held 0.3 gallons short of the tank's advertised capacity.
When my dad was daily driving a truck he REFUSED to fill it up. He’d go to the low fuel light came on, then he’d fill it up half way. He said he didn’t want to know how much money it was drinking… so it’s not always logical thought behind it, though he never did run out of gas
I am the polar opposite, I hate being below half… the cobalt though, it’s going to go to a quarter because it has a tiny tank and I need to keep reminding myself half a tank in that is only $20, not $60.
I regularly pump more than the stated tank capacity without runing out.
It all depends on the vehicle. My Prius wouldn't. My Yamaha FJR1300 won't. My 2009 Husaberg FE450 won't. I'm not going to let my F-150 get close enough to find out. Or the Tesla Model Y.
I never knew what my bike's official capacity was, but the only time I ran out of fuel was when the fuel line perished anyway.
The Yamaha FJR1300 has an idiot light that illuminates at exactly 5.0 gallons on a 6.6 gallon tank.
Had the tank off one day. Drained it. Measured exactly 1 gallon and drove 0.7 miles to the gas station. It holds 6.6 gallons but I don't know if it will drive all the way to dry.
Where did I say anything about this? Only comment i made was store owner should figure out how to capitalize on EV owners not planning ahead.
I don't know. I keep mine on the plug at home until they reach 90% per the owner's manual, which is probably 80% as Ford is thought to use a large buffer in reserve. I got my truck down in the 30s percentage wise on Sunday driving it around for Father's Day and it was the lowest it had been since our long trip in March.
I ran out of gas delivering pizzas in college one time in the early 90s. Kept pushing it because it was busy and I wanted to make money. Thankfully, I had already delivered the pizza and was on the way back to the store when my normally reliable 1986 Honda Accord sputtered to a halt. I was only on the side of the road for a couple of minutes and someone helped me with a can of gas, went immediately after that and filled up.
C'mon man... You ain't lived until you delve into the single digits... Your mind devises all kinds of improbable ways to push your piggy vehicle.
My F150 has the 36 Gallon tank and I keep it TO THE BRIM
I don't know why, because I hardly drive anywhere. It just feels right
I took the Mach-E down to 4% in October because we went camping and I didn't want to set up the tent in the dark, so we skipped the planned charging stop in town and went directly to the campground about 5 miles outside town, then circled back to charge when I was happy with the state of our campsite. It was a little tight, the car was complaining that there were no charging stops in range, which was not true, but it illustrates the point.
Unfortunately in Junction, Texas the Tesla Supercharger is not compatible with non-Tesla EVs, so you have the choice of Electrify America with absolutely nothing in the way of services nearby, or Shell Recharge with several restaurants within walking distance. Chose the Shell but I had to try 4 different chargers before I found one that worked and to add insult to injury it never got above 50KW. So I pulled off at 50% and then charged at EA going home 2 days later, which thankfully got as high as 130kwh.
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