[aggregator-ios]

Spot on. The misconceptions, even from other EV owners is astounding. People are constantly confused about kWh vs kW, Amps, voltage, temperature, range, mi/kWh, etc. Even PhD Computer Science and other highly educated folks who have owned EVs for a long time can't quite communicate the difference between those units of measurement. So of course when a curious person asks them or others, they only quote the falsehoods that someone told them.

Some examples:

1. I constantly see EV owners install 60A/11kWh service, costing them on average $10k when their driving needs don't require it.

2. People thinking they need more than 300mi of range and think they will run out of batteries like they do on their headphones.

All of this needs an understanding of the aforementioned units and basic physics. But, you're not going to get that by just talking to people. Salespeople are especially not going to do that, they can't even do that for combustion cars.

[BatteryMountain]

Most households do not drive more than 100KM per day... yet people are obsessed with range.

My next EV will be a small BYD (dolphin or dolphin surf), these things can get between 200KM and 400KM per FULL charge, depending on your speed and settings. If you use the "slow" wall charger (that doesn't require installation or modifications to home circuits), not only will the batteries last longer, it will easily charge up your 100KM actual drive range in a couple of hours, typically overnight.

If you empty the battery each day and recharge it each night, that nets you 300KM per charge, or 2100KM per week. I don't know a single person or family that does 2100KM a week with their cars. So the whole range anxiety is rubbish. Just plug in every night and go to bed and tomorrow you have another 300km available.

Oh and then there are public fast chargers if you do get stuck. I live in Africa and this is solved problem.

Sorry for the rant..your comment about the expensive charger installations makes my blood boil as most people can just use the normal wall charger and charge overnight.

[bombcar]

The thing with range is it's another "thing to worry about" - with a gas car, it's basically nothing to worry about unless you happen to be absolutely on empty and no time to fill up the tank (5-10 minutes unless you have to go way out of your way for gas; rare).

It's like when phones went from 8-10 hour capacity to over a day; suddenly it wasn't a thing you think about anymore.