EVs - Can't Do Long Journeys? 

That's fantastic! Keep on trucking. Or ZOEing, perhaps. I'm glad to hear you are using it to such great advantage. A quick top-up charge on a stop can make quite a surprising difference. It has only failed me once, so far - when the two chargers at the services were both in use. As I said in a video on that trip, I simply repeated the attempt at a later stop.

Had the Zoe on a weeklong road trip in the outer hebrides. Worst day I covered only little over 100 smi, due to backtracking and faulty chargers. On my petrol car, driving 1000km+ on a day is no problem.

How long was the queue of traffic behind you?

Yes, well said. We can drive EVs because they did, and braved the public network in its infancy

Good luck. Not having DC rapid charging might make things a little more leisurely, but hopefully the 22kW network is up to scratch on your journey

I agree, we need to get better at this. Having sadi that, I've not had many bad ones yet - but that's partially because I don't do all that much public charging

I have got slightly more realistic results by entering the average efficiency of my car, which I can do because I have measured it (or, more correctly, I have let the car measure it - and in the case of the ZOE, it doesn't appear to be far off). It's more difficult if you are doing these thought experiments without having detailed data beforehand, as it seems to assume that the cars will have worse efficiency than they normally do - at least when I am careful. To be fair though, I suppose it is much better for it to be pessimistic than wildly optimistic. Being overly optimistic could cause people some serious anxiety if a trip doesn't work out as predicted.

No crowing involved, I'm just telling people about my real-world usage. I can't tell people about things I haven't done

Yes true, and I suppose in many cases they probably would if you asked - but they wouldn't necessarily know it were fully charged themselves, as the chargepoints are often run by a third party.

At one hotel I stayed at 2 cars were parked at the charger & maybe didn’t moved in 24 hours that I was parked there

That’s good going. Toyed with taking the Zoe to Penzance and back in a day. But am thinking better of it at the moment. (From Neath). Have done it previously in a diesel Octavia.

Ah, well done. A proper challenge. Not my namby-pamby ZE50 story! You lead the way. We others merely follow. Good on you 👍

@@clarkwgriswold157 try using the cars maps to see the mileage too

Hehehe, well, indeed! Maybe you should buy a passenger jet instead? I mean, just in case? Hee hee

You'll be charging up for half the day. Buy a,diesel and be there by teatime.

@@andrewwaller5913killing people with your emissions. A real downside for ICE. My EV would need 2 20 minute charges, which I’d probably have as breaks anyway for a 300 mile journey. To date in 30,000 km of travel we’ve not had a journey time increased using out EV given we stop every 2-3 hours anyway.

@@ObiePaddles I don't care. Emissions are carefully controlled. Do some research, its called an MoT . Nobody is buying milkfloats because they only go 100 miles and take hours to charge up they're useless.

It seems that they can do long trips,as there are plenty of people doing them. Towing can be a problem, though, I agree. How often are you towing, and how far on average?

I tow a 1450kg caravan with my i4. Range is reduced to around 100 miles, but I can work with that. It doesn't make me want to hand back my EV, as I already knew what it would do before I bought it. As for long trips, I can charge to 100%, set off on a journey, and cover 300 miles before I need to charge for 40 mins, afterwhich, I can do a further 250 miles. So I can go 550 miles with a single 40 minute stop. I call that good.

So funny that you have hit so many EV hater comments in 3 sentences.

@@ObiePaddles I think electric cars will make sense when we have fusion electricity generation for cheap abundant electricity for all. So it’s 30 years in the future and always will be.