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CrealCritter

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Everytime I go into town, (which ain't very often, because I really don't like going to town) I see something new.

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No electric car here so, anyone know how you pay for a recharge? Length of time, amount needed, Etc.? Then, what are you expected to do while charging? 🤷.

Gas, you fill and go....a few minutes. How long to recharge? Totally unknown to me.

Charge a car battery isn't fast...but these are different?
 

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No electric car here so, anyone know how you pay for a recharge? Length of time, amount needed, Etc.? Then, what are you expected to do while charging? 🤷.

Gas, you fill and go....a few minutes. How long to recharge? Totally unknown to me.

Charge a car battery isn't fast...but these are different?
Good questions... I have one myself. What if you run out of charge? I guess there no walking to carry back 5 gallons of electricity.

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I asked a guy with one Plugged in at Walmart. You put in a cc and then put the plug in. Go shopping.... when you come out and you uplug it will put the charge on your card that it already has the number... He said it usually is about $2-5 for a charge and he usually is in there for a half to 2 hours maybe... said it is alot cheaper than gas.... This was about 6 months ago ... last fall... wonder what it costs now???
I can just see us out in the field trying to get hay baled before a storm and the tractor batteries run out of "charge"....NOT.....
 

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Most people have a "charging station" at home so it can slow charge like overnight... but you have to know what mileage range your vehicle will run on a full charge...
On BYH @Bruce is in northern VT and he has solar panels and both he and his wife have electric vehicles... but I think they might be hybrids???? He would be one to ask questions of....
 

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i'd get an electric car if i could afford one. right now i don't need a car. eventually i may need one, but i don't have any time-line for when that might happen.

for large and continuous needs of power you could just have a tender with multiple battery packs on stand-by, unplug one, plug in the other, away you go and perhaps if done right even faster than the time it would take to refuel using liquids and pumps. all i know is that in terms of efficiency and simplicity you gain a lot and you lose a lot of expenses and fuel costs. tax wise i'm sure most places will figure that they need to tax the miles driven to keep the roads in repair. as long as it is fairly done i'm ok with paying taxes for public utilities, and ways of getting around. the hard part is that like many things the even base levels of taxes hit the poorest people the worst.
 

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DH and I are considering an electric / gas hybrid, but the electric range is just a bit short and the range is reduced by half when towing. We're not quite ready to plunge. If we lived in a city we could, but right now we couldnt replace one of our vehicles. My Escape tows our boat and is my daily driver. DH's Tahoe is his work truck, daily driver, and tows our camper. Getting an EV for my daily driver makes sense but we would still need to keep my Escape for towing the boat. (We tow both the camper and the boat to campgrounds, so we use both vehicles to tow at the same time.)

Close, but not quite right for us yet. I hope it gets better.
 

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It depends.ive heard of them charging in 15 mins. Also there will be private charging stations coming like gas stations and the rate is closer to the price of gas. A couple of people at work have ev. Our electric rates have gone up in our area to about 50$ a month for the average home. The price of electric is rising.

If ur battery dies will they send out a gas powered generator to recharge you?
 
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