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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,817 posts)
14. Alas, you didn't actually include the map.
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:32 PM
May 2017

I really do want to see it.

Never mind. A quick Google got it for me. But I appreciate you pointed me in that direction.

So how many miles can an electric car go without needing a recharge? I live in Santa Fe, and often drive to the Kansas City area, where I have friends and family. The only charging stations between here and there are in Tucumcari or Dodge City, neither of which I drive through, and then finally in Wichita, which I do drive through, but is 566 miles away.

I do realize that eventually there will be charging stations as common as today's gas stations, but until then, I'll stick with my conventional car.

Oh, and are those Tesla stations usable by anyone with an electric or hybrid car?

And I can't begin to imagine owning a car that gets only 13MPG any time after 1970 or so. Honest. I've always driven small, fuel efficient cars, and absolutely do not understand why anyone would own a behemoth that gets such crappy mileage.

More to the point, the 40 gallon tank costs how much to fill, as compared to the ten or eleven gallons of gas I put into my Honda Civic which will take me nearly 400 miles on the one tank when I'm doing highway driving. For a quarter the cost of filling a tank that is four times the size.

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